University of Oregon announces more layoffs, says no tenured faculty or degree programs will be cut

September 8, 2025

The University of Oregon on Monday announced its second round of layoffs, cutting another 60 employees and eliminating 59 vacant positions. That's in addition to the layoffs that were announced earlier this year.

Newport city council approves moving ahead with U.S. Highway 101 couplet project through downtown

September 8, 2025

A major project to overhaul a portion of U.S. Highway 101 and restructuring Newport’s City Center got the green light from the city council. The plan will convert a 4-6 block section of Highway 101 into two one-way routes.

Leader of Waldport council recall effort hit with elder abuse restraining order

September 8, 2025

There appears to be no end to court-ordered restraining orders now bouncing around Waldport involving city politics – with two of the three stemming from confrontations at the Moose Lodge.

Lincoln City Police Department news release on two luring arrests in August

September 8, 2025

On Aug. 21, 2025, Dylan Wright, age 32 of Otis, was arrested after attempting to pick up a minor at an undisclosed location in Lincoln City. Wright is accused of sending sexually graphic messages and offering to sell/bring marijuana to an undercover officer posing as a minor. A search warrant was executed on Wright’s vehicle. Officers located many individually packaged

California diver who found missing Siletz boy in March keeps helping families all over the West

September 8, 2025

Scuba diver Juan Heredia of Stockton, Calif. makes his living as a mortgage broker. But his passion is to bring closure to families who have lost loved ones to the waters up and down the West Coast, just as he did last March in Siletz.

Yachats discovers more issues with pavilion; repair costs climb to $300,000

September 8, 2025

Plans to upgrade the Pavilion building behind the Yachats Commons to meet state fire safety standards have been pushed back after contractors uncovered significant rot in the building's support beams, sending the project back to the drawing board and raising repair costs to $300,000.

Survivor of 2020 Echo Mountain fire rebuilds life five years after the Lincoln County inferno changed everything

September 8, 2025

Rachelle McMaster and her children were burned out of their manufactured home when the Echo Mountain fire swept through Otis on Sept. 7, 2020. After five years of bouncing from friends homes, motels and an apartment, McMaster will soon be living in a new home under a Habitat for Humanity program in Lincoln City.

Oregon Tourism Commission meeting for two days this week in Yachats

September 8, 2025

The Oregon Tourism Commission, a nine-member board that oversees the budget of Travel Oregon, is holding its last scheduled meeting of 2025 Thursday and Friday, Sept. 11-12, in Yachats.

Indivisible Waves offering 5-session civics class this fall at OCCC

September 8, 2025

Indivisible Waves of Waldport is sponsoring a five-session civics class at the Newport campus of Oregon Coast Community College beginning in late September and going into December.

Attempt to recall Lincoln County commissioner is a big mistake

September 7, 2025

To the editor: Lincoln County voters should reject the Claire Hall recall power-grab. Commissioner Claire Hall’s experience and deep insight into Lincoln County issues have been an invaluable resource for our area’s government and would be sorely missed if the MAGA-led recall effort mounted by right-wing activists were to succeed. Hall’s skills in budgeting, her dedication to mitigating the problems