Compiled from news reports Three retired U.S. Marines walking across the country are making their way across the last two mountain ranges and nearing the end of their 3,365-mile journey […]
Central Coast Chorale performs in three concerts starting Thursday
Central Coast Chorale is putting the final touches on its music for the upcoming holiday concert, “Winter Wonder, Celebrating the Season of Light.” The first half of the concert celebrates […]
ODOT says delineator project on south edge of Yachats is a testing ground for bike route all along the Oregon Coast
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com A 1,000-foot-long traffic project just south of downtown Yachats will make the town a testing ground for new safety measures not just locally, but all along […]
Covid-19 is now a pandemic of the aged — so please update your vaccinations
To the editor As an octogenarian living in Yachats – I will be 86 on Christmas Day — I’m concerned about the changing pattern of deaths from Covid-19. In April, […]
Health officials warn three viruses are hammering Oregon hospitals with sick patients, especially the very young and old
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Three waves of respiratory disease are overlapping this winter, driving patient numbers in hospitals to maximum levels, state officials said Thursday. Respiratory syncytial virus […]
Oregon hospitals face ‘dire’ situation with sick children and adults; state allocates $25 million for more nurses
By LYNNE TERRY and BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle For nearly three years, Oregon’s hospitals have faced surge after surge of patients sick with COVID-19. They filled hospital rooms, overflowed into […]
BM 114 gun restrictions didn’t take effect Thursday as Oregon Supreme Court allows Harney County judge’s temporary hold
By BEN BOTKIN/Oregon Capital Chronicle The Oregon Supreme Court has declined to intervene and block a Harney County judge’s order that temporarily stops a voter-approved firearms measure from going […]
No crab for Christmas as latest tests delays Dungeness season until at least Dec. 31 for Oregon’s 300 boats
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews NEWPORT — Oregon’s ocean commercial Dungeness crab season will not open until at least Dec. 31 after a new round of testing showed lingering levels of […]
Gun deaths in Oregon have been increasing, but nonfatal injuries rising more dramatically, new research says
By MAX EGENER/Oregon Capital Bureau Gun deaths have been increasing in Oregon for years. But new research is making the full toll of gun violence in the state more clear. […]
Family’s fight over control of large Waldport concrete company ends up in court — and with judge’s restraining order
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews WALDPORT – A company that supplies much of the concrete in Lincoln County is embroiled in a bitter family dispute over its operation and ownership, leading […]