By ABBEY McDONALD/The Astorian ASTORIA — Oregon’s Dungeness crab fishermen have already hauled in the highest-grossing season on record, with a dockside, or ex-vessel, value of $78.1 million. The […]
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Nike co-founder Phil Knight threw his wallet into the 2022 political ring this week, giving $250,000 to Betsy Johnson’s campaign for governor. Knight’s contribution […]
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon’s projected unfunded liability for public pensions apparently shrunk significantly last year, mostly attributable to healthy investment earnings that pushed the fund past the $100 […]
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A luxury sales tax being proposed by Rep. Brad Witt, D-Clatskanie, could fund a new program offering monthly stipends for low-income pregnant women […]
To the editor: I am one of the “bystanders” who attempted to save Steve Allen when he fell into the water at Devils Churn on Sept. 9, 2021. The group […]
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — She just doesn’t look the part. White hair tops a tall frame, and she walks with a cane pending surgery this winter. She’s a […]
By KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/Oregon Public Broadcasting Onno Husing, the planning director for Lincoln County, can stand on U.S. Highway 101 and watch bits of tarmac crumble into the ocean, 80 […]
Despite averaging 100 new, reported Covid-19 cases a day the past week, Lincoln County may have seen the peak of the omicron surge, county health director Florence Pourtal said […]
Brown urged the Legislature to approve about $700 million for job training, housing and child care during a speech from her office Gov. Kate Brown delivers her State of the […]
YACHATS – Despite a deluge of rain in early January, the month saw mostly below-average rainfall in the Yachats area to kick off the first month of 2022. But as […]
