Chemawa Indian School in Salem is the oldest continuously running off-reservation Indian boarding school. By ROB MANNING and TONY SCHICK/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon’s only federally-run boarding school for Native American students failed to properly spend or account for millions of taxpayer dollars as well as hundreds of thousands contributed to student accounts by Indigenous families, […]
Archives for July 2023
Nonprofit awards $5 million to widen abortion access in Oregon
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is one of the few states nationwide with few restrictions on abortion access. But that doesn’t mean that abortions are widely available. Three-quarters of Oregon’s 36 counties have no abortion providers, according to a news release from Seeding Justice, a Portland-based nonprofit that helps underserved communities. More than 20% […]
Federal judge: Oregon Senate panel violated maverick legislator’s free speech rights
Sen. Brian Boquist, I-Dallas, prevailed in a First Amendment lawsuit he filed against other senators after he was punished for comments he made. By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Sen. Brian Boquist, the maverick Oregon lawmaker who said state police should “send bachelors and come heavily armed” if they wanted to drag him back […]
FBI offers $50,000 reward for man who disappeared near Waldport in 2011 after shooting cop
The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who slipped an extensive manhunt after being sought in the shooting and serious wounding of a Lincoln City police officer during a traffic stop 12 years ago. The FBI also is adding investigators to find David A. Durham, 56, […]
Police seek help on intentionally set fires in Lincoln City
Police in Lincoln City are asking for help after several “intentionally set” fires have burned in the Agnes Creek Open Space recreation area just inland from the beach. Police said that over the past few weeks, fire crews have responded to “several fires that started in local wooded areas” and in and near Agnes Creek […]
Commander Salamander, Dixie Delish and a cast of characters return to Primaltones in Newport through August
By GRETCHEN AMMERMAN/Oregon Coast TODAY Technology. Where would we be if it weren’t for a few mad scientists along the way? We certainly wouldn’t have the benefit of such life saving gadgets as the Candy Crush app or on-line Bingo, that’s for sure. Trying to cook up some family friendly entertainment for the summer, […]
Lincoln County Historical Society honors musician-philosopher Ernest Bloch with legacy project on Friday and Saturday
By Oregon Coast TODAY Ernest Bloch was a musician, composer, conductor, philosopher, photographer and a man also known during his life as a successful mushroom hunter with a penchant for finding and polishing agates. Bloch, who moved to Agate Beach in 1941 with his wife, Marguerite, and passed away in 1959, is one of […]
The idea for this weekend’s Yachats conference on race was born during Saturday vigils on the sidewalks of Highway 101
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The conversations started after the first year of their weekly Saturday Black Lives Matter protests along U.S. Highway 101 in Yachats. “Is there something we could do to have a greater and longer-lasting impact,” several group members began asking. Then Karla Scott, an author, consultant and professor of communication […]
Oregon farm estate tax relief bill awaits Gov. Kotek’s signature
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI/Capital Press A simplified method of estate tax relief for Oregon farmers may soon become law despite complaints it will reduce state revenues to benefit the wealthy. Senate Bill 498, which creates a tax exemption for family farm, forest and fishing estates worth up to $15 million, is intended to ease the succession […]
Number of West Coast gray whales continues seven-year decline, say NOAA researchers, but there are some promising signs
By NOAA NEWS SERVICE and YACHATSNEWS The number of gray whales that migrate along the West Coast continued their decline this winter from a high seven years ago, but researchers have found clues suggesting their numbers may soon start to rebound. Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration counted whales migrating south off […]