By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews WALDPORT – Waldport city councilors let loose a collective cheer when they learned work on the long-awaited plan to build a sidewalk along a portion of […]
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Central Oregon Coast fire board will ask voters to increase an operations levy in November
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – The Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District board voted unanimously Thursday to ask voters in November to increase their property taxes to help […]
Floating wind project off southern Oregon coast clears first big bureaucratic hurdle in a long process
By MONICA SAMAYOA/Oregon Public Broadcasting The Oregon coast is inching closer to generating renewable electricity using floating offshore wind turbines, although any construction is still years away. On Tuesday, […]
Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office now using state-of-the-art drug testing device
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has started using a new state-of-the-art tool giving officers a safer and smarter edge to combat drug problems in our community. This device also aids […]
Florida man rescued from Devils Churn south of Yachats; one of few “ever pulled out of here alive”
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS — A Florida man was rescued relatively unscathed from Devils Churn on Tuesday after tripping while taking a photo and falling about 15 feet into […]