ODFW commissioners will consider extending rules Friday to limit crab gear to lessen impact on whales and turtles

August 2, 2023

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Oregon Fish and Wildlife commissioners are expected Friday to indefinitely extend regulations aimed at reducing whale entanglements with commercial crabbing gear. Commissioners, meeting in Salem, are on track to adopt staff recommendations that have been in effect for the past three years. Their vote to adopt the proposed rules indefinitely is needed because expiration dates

Carl Miller, Yachats

August 1, 2023

Carl F. Miller, Yachats Dec. 4, 1939 – July 24, 2023 Carl F. Miller, a longtime Yachats resident who led a local theater group, was chair of a museum nonprofit and grad marshal of the 2022 La de da Parade, died July 24, 2023 after a short illness. He was 83. Carl Foster Miller was born Dec. 4, 1939 in

Signups for commercial matsutake mushroom permits on Siuslaw Forest now open

August 1, 2023

WALDPORT — Applications for matsutake mushroom collection permits for the Central Coast ranger district of the Siuslaw National Forest are now open. Every year, 100 commercial-use permits are available on a first come, first served basis. Any person wishing to obtain a commercial matsutake collection permit should complete a request form by Aug. 21. A commercial use permit costs $250

Oregonians can start applying for paid family and medical leave from work beginning Aug. 14

August 1, 2023

By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon workers can apply for benefits through the state’s new paid leave program starting Aug. 14. The program, Paid Leave Oregon, covers family leave, medical leave and safe leave for Oregonians with jobs. Oregon is the 12th state in the nation with paid family and medical leave for workers, due to a bill the