Lincoln County infrastructure projects and a local program to set up a response system to help the homeless received a total of $11.35 million in funding from the Oregon […]
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Mother of girl found dead off Lincoln County highway pleads not guilty to murder
By The Oregonian/OregonLive NEWPORT — The mother of the young girl found dead in 2020 along a muddy riverbank in Lincoln County pleaded not guilty Monday to a single count of aggravated […]
Oregon Legislature ended 2022 session with big spending, policy changes, little political rancor
Money will move to just about every part of life in Oregon to aid individuals, families and communities Speaker Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, presides over the House on Wednesday, Feb. 16, […]
Siletz tribal members in southern Oregon are leading the effort to revive and spread word of the native Kalapuyan language
By MYERS REECE/Underscore.news On a drizzly January morning, Esther Stutzman’s dining room table is covered with sticky notes, worksheets, notepads and several bulky Kalapuya dictionaries. Seated next to Stutzman […]
Seal Rock Fire board wants to offer chief’s job to Ewing, loses two firefighters and board member and decides to keep negotiating with COCF&R
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com SEAL ROCK – The Seal Rock Fire District board wants to offer the part-time consultant who has been helping the district since October a two-year contract […]
Still wrestling with staffing issues, new Yachats manager again asks for public’s patience with city hall closure
YACHATS – Yachats city manager Heide Lambert is again asking for patience from the public when it comes to dealing with city hall. Lambert, who started as city manager […]
Samaritan medical group in Newport adds surgeon from Mayo Clinic
NEWPORT – Dr. Nathaniel Uecker, a general surgeon specializing in minimally invasive surgery has joined Samaritan Surgical Specialists in Newport. Uecker specializes in laparoscopic gallbladder, hernia and bowel surgery and […]
OSU researcher will lead online webinar March 16 on coastal resilience
NEWPORT – How coast communities can increase their resilience to natural hazards from tsunamis to landslides is the subject of the next online “Hatfield Science on Tap” at 6 p.m. Wednesday, […]
Another long discussion by Yachats council on repairs to Little Log Church ends with 3-2 vote to seek bids for plans — and more frustration
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – The Yachats City Council voted 3-2 Thursday to seek bids for a structural engineering report so it can get estimates for possible repairs to […]
Oregon’s COVID-19 cases dropping even faster that forecast ahead of governor’s mask timeline next week
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Oregon could fall below 400 patients with COVID-19 in state hospitals within days, but Gov. Kate Brown is not changing the March 12 date […]