The Cape Perpetua Visitor Center is open — one of the few U.S. Forest Service facilities on the Oregon coast not affected by the shutdown of large swaths of the […]
New council moves meeting dates, sets 2019 goals
One of the first things the new Yachats City Council did Wednesday is change its monthly meeting schedule. The council had been meeting at 9:30 a.m. the first Wednesday of […]
2019 calendar benefits Yachats kids
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com You could say that the calendar for Yachats Youth and Family Activities Program started on Dec. 3, 2011. That’s when Ken Gagne of Yachats was loading his […]
Cape Trail reopens after slide
The Siuslaw National Forest has reopened the short trail along Highway 101 on Cape Perpetua that connects two popular trails after erosion of the cliff below made it unsafe. But […]
Newport hospital reopens walk-in clinic
NEWPORT — After three weeks of operation inside a mobile medicine van, the walk-in urgent care clinic at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport has reopened in a longer-term location next to […]
2018 rainfall is second lowest in nine years
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Yachats received a bit more than 58 inches of rain in 2018, the second lowest amount in the past nine years, reinforcing worries how the city collects, […]
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