By LAUREN DAKE/Oregon Public Broadcasting A few days before members of the legislative committee charged with transportation and economic development were set to talk about how to protect fish in […]
Contractor coalition sues Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek over executive order requiring union labor
By DIRK VANDERHART/Oregon Public Broadcasting Oregon construction firms say an order by Gov. Tina Kotek last year mandating union labor in many state projects amounts to an illegal power grab. […]
5 Questions and a Secret: Kayak fisherman (and ice cream scooper) Greg Anderson of Waldport
By KATHLEEN O’CONNOR/YachatsNews Those fishermen and crabbers in kayaks on Alsea Bay look so precarious. How do they stay upright when they have a fish on or are pulling […]
District attorney rules December’s Five Rivers officer-involved shooting death was justified but “a tragedy for all involved”
Correction: An earlier version of this story used a photo of an Army National Guard member from Wyoming also named Tyler Holloway, but who is not the man killed […]
Seal Rock fire board member tries to mend fences with chief, but says “obsession” with Central Coast fire needs to end
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews SEAL ROCK – While there was still some mopping up to do after a contentious Seal Rock Fire District board meeting last month – making amends […]
Waldport family “Paying it forward with pizza” brings free food each Wednesday to Yachats Lions Hall
By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews YACHATS – The town’s newest pizzeria is open just one day a week and charges nothing — or whatever donation you can afford. It’s how a […]
Storm knocks out two main BPA power lines to the central coast Monday, power restored by late Tuesday
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Two Bonneville Power Administration transmission lines feeding electricity to much of the central Oregon coast went down in a wind and lightning storm Monday evening, plunging […]
Forest collective offering five hours of community activity Friday in Yachats
YACHATS – The public is invited to attend an evening of art, music, education and community action centered around coastal forest health at the Yachats Commons from 4-9 p.m. Friday, […]
Oregon and Idaho lawmakers from both parties want to restore bill providing millions in rural school funding
By ALEX BAUMHARDT/Oregon Capital Chronicle A bipartisan group of lawmakers from the West are joining forces to persuade Congress to reauthorize a 24-year-old bill that has sent billions to states […]
Tidewater man suspected of murder dies in Kansas police chase Jan. 25
A Lincoln County man sought in a woman’s death died Jan. 25 in south-central Kansas after a police pursuit led to a rollover accident. Jerry W. Thompson, 55, of Tidewater, […]