Cape Perpetua center remains open during government shutdown

January 3, 2019

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 federal government. The center two miles south of Yachats is open its regular hours — 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. seven days a week. It is staffed by two Forest Service

Cape Trail reopens after slide

January 3, 2019

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 there remains a longer-term erosion threat to the Cape Cove Trail and the highway, according to Dan Matthews, coast recreation staff officer for the agency. The trail closed in the

Newport hospital reopens walk-in clinic

January 3, 2019

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 the Center for Health Education, 740 S.W. Ninth St. To prepare for the next phase of the new hospital construction project, the modular building had to be moved from its