By REBECCA HANSEN-WHITE/KLCC News The city of Newport is hoping to revitalize its city center over the next several years. “Newport’s city center needs help,” says a consultant’s report […]
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Fewer Lincoln County residents and Oregonians voted in November’s general election compared with 2020
By BRYCE DOYLE/Oregon Public Broadcasting and YachatsNews Fewer Lincoln County residents and Oregonians overall voted in this presidential election compared to the last one. About 75 percent of registered […]
Philomath mill finds a growing niche by specializing in hardwoods that others don’t want to deal with
By BRAD FUQUA/Philomath News Brad Mehl and Terry Haddix walk the grounds of Patrick Lumber just west of Philomath to check on the construction progress of a new hardwood […]
Investigators work to unravel two shooting deaths, one by police, on remote Five Rivers farm
By YACHATSNEWS FIVE RIVERS – A team of police investigators from Lane County is trying to sort out two shooting deaths Thursday night and Friday on a remote farm […]
Happy holidays: YachatsNews and its staff are taking a bit of a break until Jan. 3
To our readers: YachatsNews is going to take a break from daily news gathering chores from Monday, Dec. 23 until Friday, Jan. 3 to celebrate the holidays and […]
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 – […]
15 vacation rental licenses available, but commissioners extend moratorium for another 3 months
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County commissioners Wednesday extended a years-old moratorium on new vacation rental licenses for another three months, but also said it was time to examine how […]
Grand jury rules deputy justified in using deadly force in November shooting of violent Waldport woman
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews A Lincoln County grand jury has found a Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy justified in using deadly force last month when he shot and killed a 38-year-old […]