By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews WALDPORT – Efforts to find a vendor to run the Waldport Wednesday Market ran into a snag this week after it was determined the two applicants […]
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Fifth day of search for missing 2-year-old boy covers 14 miles of the Siletz River without success
Wednesday evening search update from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office: Divers and search boats covered 14 miles of the Siletz River downstream from the home of 2-year-old Dane Paulsen, who […]
Trump administration firings of federal workers begins to ripple through Lincoln County. Are budget and program cuts next?
By QUINTON SMITH and GARRET JAROS /YachatsNews Three U.S. Bureau of Land Management park rangers at Yaquina Head? Gone. U.S. Department of Agriculture temporary, probationary or seasonal workers in […]
COCF&R board asks state ethics commission to investigate Seal Rock fire chief’s threats in incendiary email
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews WALDPORT – A fire needs heat, fuel and oxygen in order to exist. There seems to be no shortage of those elements in the seemingly unending […]
Seachers for 2-year-old boy missing for almost three days focus efforts on nearby Siletz River
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Boats and divers from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and four other departments combed the Siletz River on Monday looking for a 2½-year-old boy missing since […]
County reopens refurbished Newport winter shelter for homeless after five months of work
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews NEWPORT – With an “Are we ready? Let’s do this!” the staff at Lincoln County’s winter shelter for the homeless reopened Wednesday night for the first […]
District attorney rules December’s Five Rivers officer-involved shooting death was justified but “a tragedy for all involved”
Correction: An earlier version of this story used a photo of an Army National Guard member from Wyoming also named Tyler Holloway, but who is not the man killed […]
Seal Rock fire board member tries to mend fences with chief, but says “obsession” with Central Coast fire needs to end
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews SEAL ROCK – While there was still some mopping up to do after a contentious Seal Rock Fire District board meeting last month – making amends […]
Waldport family “Paying it forward with pizza” brings free food each Wednesday to Yachats Lions Hall
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS – The town’s newest pizzeria is open just one day a week and charges nothing — or whatever donation you can afford. It’s how a […]
Storm knocks out two main BPA power lines to the central coast Monday, power restored by late Tuesday
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Two Bonneville Power Administration transmission lines feeding electricity to much of the central Oregon coast went down in a wind and lightning storm Monday evening, plunging […]