Wyden schedules town hall Saturday, Sept. 6 in Newport

August 28, 2025

Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore. has scheduled a town hall for 12:30 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6 at the Newport Performing Arts Center.

State’s economists tell legislators that federal tax cuts could blow a $373 million hole in Oregon’s new budget

August 28, 2025

Oregon legislators were told Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s so-called One Big Beautiful Bill is expected to slash money flowing into the state’s general fund by more than $888 million during the current two-year budget.

Gov. Tina Kotek’s transportation plan could reshape how Oregonians think about electric vehicles

August 28, 2025

A new proposal under Gov. Tina Kotek’s transportation bill up for debate beginning Friday would require EV and plug-in hybrid drivers to enroll in a program that would charge them a per-mile fee, or a “road usage charge,” for driving on any Oregon road.

Covid pandemic gave Newport-based NOAA scientists rare chance to study effects of quieter ocean

August 28, 2025

The dramatic disruption of commerce and trade caused by the Covid-19 pandemic presented scientists based at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport with an unanticipated opportunity to study the decrease of human-generated noise and its impact on ocean soundscapes.

“Dirty Cello” concert Sunday at Pacific Heritage Center is a fundraiser for nonprofit KYAQ radio

August 27, 2025

Get down and dirty and support community, nonprofit KYAQ radio when San Francisco-based Dirty Cello rocks Newport’s Pacific Maritime Heritage Center on Sunday, Aug. 31

Long awaited completion of sidewalk along Crestline Drive in Waldport comes just in time for school

August 27, 2025

The long-awaited swath of asphalt path along Crestline Drive stretching from Range Drive to Crestview Heights School will make students' return to class by hoof or Huffy that much safer next week.

Yachats rolls out eight (and Waldport one) events to fill your Labor Day weekend with fun, music and food

August 26, 2025

Looking for something to do this Labor Day weekend? Yachats organizations have eight events planned Saturday through Monday and there's the second vendor fair and street dance Saturday in front of the Waldport Moose Lodge.

Vacation home rental company testing the market with boutique motel in Newport’s Nye Beach neighborhood

August 26, 2025

The owners of a large Yachats-based vacation home rental business have taken a cluster of tiny, run-down cottages in the Nye Beach area of Newport and two years and $2 million later have opened their first boutique motel -- The Louie.

Bandon-area roadside zoo owner faces racketeering, animal neglect charges in 371 count indictment

August 26, 2025

Southern Oregon prosecutors have unsealed a walloping 371-count indictment against Brian Tenney, the owner of the West Coast Game Park Safari roadside zoo that has been dogged by animal maltreatment complaints for years.

New study says PGE’s efforts to improve salmon and steelhead in iconic Deschutes River aren’t working

August 25, 2025

A new scientific review says the $108 million strategy that Portland General Electric and the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs developed to return salmon and steelhead to the upper Deschutes River isn’t working.