You wouldn’t know it from the last few days, but February was a dry, cold month in the Yachats area. A rain and wind storm that pummeled the central coast […]
Environment
Newport-based OSU scientist helps develop new worldwide map of whale migration in order to help protect them
By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU News Service NEWPORT – A comprehensive new map and report tracking whale migrations around the globe highlights where they go in the high seas and the […]
Last-minute agreement will allow free electronics recycling to continue at Dahl Dispoal sites in Waldport and Toledo
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com In a victory for customers, haulers and industry managers, agreements have been reached to allow Oregon residents to continue to recycle electronic waste for free at […]
Local, free electronics recycling could become more difficult March 1 unless last-minute changes are made in current legislative session
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com Residents of south Lincoln County will soon have fewer places to recycle their electronic waste for free – but an uproar over the change may only […]
As Oregon’s land-use rules bump up against increasingly popular shorelines, a Tillamook County case illustrates the challenge facing regulators
By KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/Oregon Public Broadcasting Back in 2016 Michael Ellis, a former president of the Fred Meyer grocery chain, bought a lot in the Pine Beach development along Tillamook […]
OSU marine researchers find little genetic link for some sea stars staying healthy amid deadly wasting syndrome
By STEVE LUNDEBERG/OSU News Service Healthy-looking ochre sea stars have minimal genetic difference from those displaying symptoms of sea star wasting syndrome, say Oregon State University researchers who examined […]
U.S. Highway 101 along the Oregon coast is in sorry shape, but repairing it runs contrary to the state’s lauded land-use rules.
By KRISTIAN FODEN-VENCIL/Oregon Public Broadcasting Onno Husing, the planning director for Lincoln County, can stand on U.S. Highway 101 and watch bits of tarmac crumble into the ocean, 80 […]
Newport-based NOAA research ship and crew is among international group heading to North Pacific to study salmon
By LYNDA V. MAPES/The Seattle Times An international team of more than 60 scientists in four vessels — including one based in Newport — is headed out on winter […]
Four OSU scientists connect and collaborate to try to understand the effect of microplastics in gray whales and the ocean’s food chain
By NANCY STEINBERG/Oregon State University NEWPORT — The concept is so well-established that it’s almost cliché — the most important thing humans know about ecosystems is that everything in […]
Ten Mile Creek Sanctuary south of Yachats getting significant expansion with the $150,000 purchase of two adjacent forest parcels
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com YACHATS — Barring any unexpected hiccups, one of the central Oregon coast’s largest and oldest protected forest sanctuaries will expand significantly by the end of the […]