By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting SALEM — A fierce and growing debate over whether to end Oregon’s three-year drug decriminalization experiment took center stage Wednesday, as lawmakers wrestling with the […]
Oregon State University’s Castor String Quartet and the Alliance Charter School Symphony will present a chamber concert Sunday, Feb. 11, at Atonement Lutheran Church in Newport. Castor Quartet members […]
The public is invited to attend one of two free seminars Thursday, Feb. 29 on opioid abuse and treatment at the Samaritan Center for Health Education in Newport. Jesse Noble, […]
A 37-year-old Yachats man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after pleading guilty to six of 15 counts of encouraging child sex abuse. Joshua L. Slauf was sentenced […]
By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Oregon lawmakers will have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend over the next year after another positive economic forecast released Wednesday morning. […]
Oregon lawmakers are considering proposals to address the state’s drug addiction crisis, from expanding treatment to more housing. Oregon’s addiction crisis is fueled by fentanyl, which is short acting and […]
House Speaker Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, is among the politicians to watch this session. By JULIA SHUMWAY/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — The start of Oregon’s short legislative session this week brought […]
A nurse at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport has received national certification to help treat survivors of sexual assault – and four other Samaritan Health nurses are in training […]
Coastal Voices, the 53-voice community choir on the central Oregon coast, has received grants from three organizations to help continue its operations and outreach, The choir was recently awarded a […]
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle SALEM — Democratic lawmakers are split over whether a greater share of the hundreds of millions of dollars needed to protect the state from wildfires […]
