Lincoln County’s unemployment rate was 7.7 percent in May, the Oregon Employment Department announced Tuesday, slightly below the April rate but two percentage points higher than the state’s overall rate. […]
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com The Oregon Court of Appeals has upheld a lower-court ruling that invalidated an initiative banning aerial spraying of pesticides in Lincoln County. The ruling this week came […]
By CHERI BRUBAKER/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT — Gary Herd paints murals. He acts in local theater. He can weld, do home repairs and make things out of wood. And for […]
Oregon reports 232 new confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases, 1 new death PORTLAND — There is one new COVID-19 related death in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 2,760, […]
The man charged in the beating death of former Yachats resident Martin Baker is still in a San Diego County jail, still awaiting a preliminary hearing on a charge of […]
Lincoln County has seen a slight rise in COVID-19 cases the past week and in all but two of them, the ill person had not been vaccinated against the virus. […]
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau A new class of dental therapists, working under the supervision of dentists, would provide basic services to patients under a bill that is headed to […]
By PETER WONG/Oregon Capital Bureau Many Oregon businesses will see smaller increases in their unemployment payroll taxes, and even forgiveness of some amounts, as a result of a bill now […]
By GARY A. WARNER/Oregon Capital Bureau Gov. Kate Brown on Tuesday announced what she said would be the last adjustments in the state’s county COVID-19 infection risk levels. Brown said […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com If it was any other landslide in a remote section Oregon’s Coast Range, there would not be much concern. Some private or Forest Service logging roads […]
