By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Federal regulators have threatened to yank the certification for Oregon State Hospital’s Junction City unit if it doesn’t immediately fix multiple problems at that campus, […]
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State of Oregon agrees it cannot enforce real estate “love letters” law, pays Bend firm $60,000
By Oregon Capital Chronicle The state of Oregon won’t keep fighting to enforce a first-in-the-nation ban on real estate “love letters” and will pay a Bend real estate group more […]
Have you seen Ronnie? Family and community search for woman who lived in her car the past year around Yachats and Waldport
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – A woman who spent the last year living in her car in and around Yachats abandoned the vehicle nearly three weeks ago, worrying family […]
Yachats council gives unanimous approval to seek engineering design and costs for Ocean View Drive boardwalk
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council has given the go-ahead for the next step on what could be a $950,000 project to build a 350-foot boardwalk […]
Waldport High School wins third straight forestry championship, teacher named natural resources educator of the year
WALDPORT – It’s a three-peat for the forestry program at Waldport High School, which also had its instructor honored as natural resources educator of the year for Oregon. Some […]
YYFAP’s annual fundraiser is 2-5 p.m. Sunday to benefit its children’s programs
YACHATS – Three hours of family fun is on tap Sunday with a local non-profit’s festival and fundraiser following the Yachats Farmer’s Market. When the market on West Fourth Street […]
With federal investment, seven Oregon highways — including U.S. 101 and 20 — to get charging stations every 50 miles
The Oregon Department of Transportation will invest in a growing network of electric vehicle charging stations across seven major highways (National Park Service) By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle An electric […]
For the first time in years, Lincoln County has competition for ambulance services pitting a longtime, local company against a national provider
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com For the first time in at least two decades, there is competition to provide ambulance service for most of Lincoln County. American Medical Response/Northwest, an arm […]
Yachats Fire budget committee wrestles with bare bones budget for 2022-23 which will require another “bridge” loan to make ends meet
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District will have to take out another bank loan this summer to help make ends meet, following the defeat […]
Oregon Health Authority approves seven more counties — including Lincoln — for drug treatment programs
By NIGEL JAQUISS/Willamette Week The glacial process of getting a massive chunk of new funding into Oregon’s substance abuse disorder treatment industry is grinding forward. The Oregon Health Authority announced […]