By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle Oregon Health Authority Director Sejal Hathi wants to improve Oregon’s health care system, including keeping rural hospitals open and supporting homeless people and testing children […]
By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle More than 1,800 Oregonians died of drug overdoses in 2023, a rising trend that state leaders want to reverse with new programs to combat addiction. […]
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews After extensive behind-the-scenes planning, money is now ready to roll out to help Lincoln County homeless youth and their families find suitable shelter. Nearly $1 million […]
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Whether it is a first or not is anyone’s guess – but with just 14 votes Yachats residents have elected write-in candidate Nicole Hedlund […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The board of the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District wants to make another run at getting permission from the Oregon Department of Transportation […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews NEWPORT — An attempt by Lincoln County commissioners to conduct their first evaluation of administrator Tim Johnson in 2½ years went awry Wednesday when Johnson didn’t […]
By ROB MANNING/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — The Oregon Secretary of State’s Office has released its third in a series of audits of the Oregon Department of Education’s High School […]
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadasting SALEM — Oregon lawmakers unleashed a flood of emergency funding Thursday, as the state grapples with its most expensive, expansive wildfire season in modern times. […]
By LYNNE TERRY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon will start testing milk this week for bird flu as part of a federal program to monitor the virus, which has turned […]
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS — The design is ready. The budget is set. The county permit is in. Now all that’s needed for a new Yachats library is someone […]
