Take a ride with members of the Yaquina Birders and Naturalists to the “Land of the Midnight Sun” during a naturalist presentation by Waldport wildlife photographer Roy W. Lowe […]
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Oregon lifts COVID-19 vaccine requirements, quarantine advice and other health measures as federal emergency ends
By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon is ending COVID-19 vaccine requirements for educators and health care workers and officials are no longer asking people infected with the virus to […]
Siuslaw National Forest going to electronic fee machines
Some recreation areas in the Siuslaw National Forest and Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area are going electronic by installing automated fee machines. The machines, the agency said in a news […]
Oregon Gov. Kotek, fire officials say wet winter could delay wildfires, but drought persists
By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — A wet winter is likely to delay wildfires, but ongoing drought in eastern Oregon could make for a worse fire season east of […]
Attack on gray whale calf by large pod of orcas Monday brings marine predation close to shore for dozens of witnesses
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Emotions ranged from exhilaration to horror Monday evening as dozens gathered on the shore near Cape Foulweather witnessed a pod of killer whales attacking a migrating […]
Secretary of State office leaders call agency “resilient” in Monday statement endorsing Fagan’s resignation
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Shemia Fagan ended her nearly three-year tenure as Oregon’s 28th secretary of state at midday Monday, less than two hours after her staff […]
Oregon Shakespeare’s Nataki Garrett: ‘You kind of have to get out before you burn out’
Oregon Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director Nataki Garrett speaks at the OSF Gala at Ashland Springs Hotel in October. By HOLLY DILLEMUTH/Ashland.news It cannot be said definitively why Oregon Shakespeare Festival Nataki […]
OSU will help lead $30 million regional effort to help farmers and food-related businesses access new markets
By SEAN NEALON/OSU News Service CORVALLIS – Oregon State University has been selected to help lead a $30 million U.S. Department of Agriculture regional food business center that will support […]
Oregon Senate Republican walkout hits day 6 as one GOP senator files two workplace complaints
Democratic senators watch on Sunday, May 7, as a board shows 10 absences preventing a quorum. By JULIA SHUMWAY and BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — One Republican senator filed […]
Scary-looking creature that keeps washing ashore along the Oregon coast raises interest in lancetfish
By LAUREN McCARTHY/The New York Times For hundreds of years, a strange species of fish with long fanglike teeth that eats its own kind and spends most of its time […]