News Briefs

YACHATS – A Roseburg man is in the Lincoln County jail after crashing his car Thursday in Yachats and fleeing into a neighborhood. Oregon State Police were able to track […]

The Confederated Tribes of the Siletz and two other Oregon tribes have secured more than $2.3 million in federal grants to provide services and promote justice for survivors of domestic […]

WALDPORT — Firewood cutting permits for the Siuslaw National Forest will be available beginning Monday – if there is no federal government shutdown. Commercial and personal use permits are required […]

Firefighters in the Siuslaw National Forest are wrapping up their work on two fires started by lightning in late August. The agency said Tuesday that the 119-acre Three Buttes fire […]

NEWPORT – Public calls reporting sick or dead sea lions on the coast typically increase in the early fall as male California sea lions leave California breeding grounds and move […]

WALDPORT – The Port of Alsea board will interview all five people who applied for a soon-to-be vacant board seat during a special meeting at 2 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 5. […]

NEWPORT — More than two dozen local organizations, businesses and Samaritan Health Services will take part in the Healthier You Expo from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30 […]

Coastal Voices, the 56-member community choir based on the central Oregon Coast, has received a $2,300 grant from The Roundhouse Foundation to create a choral education program for middle and […]

For the seventh month in a row, Lincoln County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined slightly in August – hitting 4.1 percent, the Oregon Employment Department announced Tuesday. The county’s unemployment […]