By GEORGE PLAVEN/Oregon Capital Bureau A new water year is off to a slow start in Oregon, where much of the state remains mired in a multi-year drought. Warm and […]
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Portland records its 93rd homicide in 2022, a new all-time high as city struggles with search for possible solutions
Police tape blocks off North Commercial Street near Jefferson High School after shots were filed on Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2022. Jonathan Levinson / OPB By JONATHAN LEVINSON/Oregon Public Broadcasting […]
New state law allows Oregon cities to designate speed limits on their streets
By OREGON PUBLIC BROADCASTING A new state law allows Oregon cities — and some counties — to apply for the authority to designate speed limits on their roads. In the […]
ODOT ends 23 years of U.S. Highway 20 “safety corridor” east of Toledo
After 23 years, Oregon Department of Transportation crews are taking down signs that designated 10 miles of U.S. Highway 20 east of Toledo as a traffic safety corridor. The agency […]
City of Yachats wins $250,000 ODOT grant it will use to re-start E. Second Street project
YACHATS – The city of Yachats has received a $250,000 grant from the Oregon Department of Transportation to help it rebuild a 540-foot section of East Second Street. The […]
Food banks across Oregon forced to tighten belts as hunger swells and prices rise across the state
Volunteer Rose Mary Garrels heads off to deliver groceries to a client during the Keizer Community Food Bank at Faith Lutheran Church in Salem on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022. (Moriah […]
NOAA and OSU scientists study declining West Coast gray whale population. Does summer group off Oregon coast offer some clues?
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle Scientists are investigating the causes of a nearly 40 percent decline in the Pacific gray whales that pass along the Oregon Coast each winter […]
Spending by coastal tourists has almost entirely recovered from depths of the 2020 pandemic, new study shows
Spending by visitors in four northwest Oregon coastal counties has mostly rebounded from the two-year coronavirus pandemic and is expected to fully recover in 2023, according to a new […]
Port of Alsea and watersheds group begin to plan how to — or if — rid Eckman Lake of toxic algae
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Eckman Lake’s best days may be behind it. The stagnant manmade reservoir off the lower Alsea River gets shallower every year and is plagued […]
Lincoln County judge denies request by vacation rental owner to require a transfer of license to new owners
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com A Lincoln County circuit judge has denied a request by the owner of three vacation rentals in the Bayshore area of Waldport to require the sheriff’s […]