By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE and JAKE THOMAS/Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM — The arguments and critiques are flying across the state about Senate Bill 1530, Oregon’s plan to set limits on […]
By SAM STITES/Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM — The fate of the landmark deal signed between a coalition of timber companies and environmental groups depends on lawmakers acting on legislation […]
By SAM STITES/Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM — Oregon would prepare 250,000 households to become self-sufficient following a catastrophic earthquake under legislation advancing in Salem. The legislation, Senate Bill 1537, also […]
By SAM STITES/Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM – The deal between the timber industry and environmentalists is intended to end the war in the woods that has beset Oregon forestry […]
By CLAIRE WITHYCOMBE/Oregon Capital Bureau SALEM — Lawmakers revealed changes Wednesday to the plan to cut back on the state’s greenhouse gas emissions that would ease the impact on rural […]
By GILLIAN FLACCUS/The Associated Press A rare environmental success story is unfolding in waters off the Oregon and California coasts. After years of fear and uncertainty, bottom trawler fishermen — […]
It was a very dry year in Yachats. Again. Yachats received a total of 50.43 inches in rain in 2019 — the second-lowest amount of rain over the past […]
November rain in Yachats was the lowest recorded in the last 10 years, resulting in an 11-month total rainfall amount for the area just 71 percent of normal. There […]
Get ready for some big tides starting this week. “King Tides” – when normal high tides are higher than usual – occur once a month during the winter and summer. […]
By MICHELLE KLAMPE/OSU NEWPORT – After more than three years at the bottom of Yaquina Bay, the skeleton of a 78-foot blue whale has been put on dry land so […]
