By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon Attorney General-elect Dan Rayfield tapped a dozen prominent Oregonians who work in areas like health care, law and labor to advise his […]
Archives for December 2024
Losing candidate wins $3,615 judgement against Newport radio station
A Lincoln County circuit judge has awarded $3,615 to a May primary county commission candidate against a Newport radio station which he says did not run his advertisements and therefore […]
Oregon’s new nurse staffing law draws complaints, disagreement among union and hospitals
By JAKE THOMAS/The Lund Report Six months after a new law set staffing minimums at Oregon hospitals, the state’s largest nurses union and its hospitals can’t agree on what it means, even […]
Benton County Sheriff’s deputies using ODOT grants to try to make Newport-to-Philomath highway safer
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews BLODGETT – Benton County Sheriff Lt. Toby Bottorff’s patrol SUV sits in a wide spot along U.S. Highway 20 just a few hundred yards west of […]
Rough seas keep Newport-based crabbers close to port, but getting good prices for initial catch
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews NEWPORT – Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab season is off and running but has been slower out of the blocks this year after gale force winds on […]
Yachats Lions Club wraps up a year of resurrected monthly lunches with fun on the menu
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The monthly lunch may have had all the ingredients of a Christmas dinner – ham, sweet potatoes, corn casserole, salad, rolls and cookies – […]
Waldport council evaluates manager, trims raise and seeks better communication
WALDPORT – City manager Dann Cutter received praise for doing a good job from the Waldport city council during his annual review last week, and a 5 percent pay raise […]
Federal government sues PacifiCorp over 2020 Oregon wildfire, as the costs of fires to the company climb
By APRIL ERHLICH/Oregon Public Broadcasting The federal government is suing the electric utility PacifiCorp over a 2020 wildfire in Douglas County. The Archie Creek Fire burned across more than 131,000 […]
City officials, sheriff condemn racist letter urging roundup of “brown illegals”
The Toledo city council, Lincoln City’s mayor and the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office are condemning a racist letter they received or is circulating that encourages residents to help round up […]