By NIGEL JAQUIS/Oregon Journalism Project ASTORIA — In this fishing town at the mouth of the Columbia River, unsheltered homelessness is pervasive. The percentage of people sleeping outside in […]
NEWPORT — More vendors will operate along the Bayfront after local artists asked the Newport City Council to offer more permits. The addition of two designated spaces along the west […]
By LAUREN DAKE/Oregon Public Broadcasting Federal criminal investigators have closed their case against former Oregon Secretary of State Shemia Fagan. Fagan, a rising Democratic political star, resigned in 2023 after revelations she […]
By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle WALDPORT – A Tidewater man arrested for drunken driving last week after hitting one vehicle and then plowing his truck into an auto repair shop […]
WALDPORT – Last fall, 14 Waldport artists put on a one-day show with hopes it would be popular. After more than 500 people poured through the doors of the Waldport […]
CORVALLIS – The Samaritan Health Services board has selected the organization’s chief operating officer to lead the five-hospital system in Lincoln, Benton and Linn counties effective May 19. Marty Cahill, […]
By QUINTON SMITH/Lincoln Chronicle Fishermen, boaters, and environmentalists are battling over a request by the Siletz Tribe to ban boat motors on a vast stretch of the Siletz River […]
LINCOLN CITY – Lincoln City’s city manager Daphnee Legarza is resigning effective June 9. “We have received a resignation letter from our city manager … and the council needs to […]
A 42-year-old Newport woman was killed early Thursday on Highway 20 four miles east of Newport when the car she was driving crossed into the opposing lane, collided with one […]
By DANA TIMS/Lincoln Chronicle Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers […]
