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Because of hot dry weather, fire departments in Yachats, Waldport, Newport and Toledo have issued a ban on all outside burning such as campfires until Thursday. The ban applies to wood, charcoal, and sources of other flames that cannot be turned off with a valve on public or private property. Liquid fuel stoves or cooking devices that can be turned

NEWPORT – Moritz Schmid, a researcher whose work includes finding ways to use facial-recognition technology to identify marine organisms, has been hired to oversee research in the Oregon Marine Reserves program. Schmid fills the ecological team-leader slot after Lindsay Aylesworth became program leader last fall. Schmid, 36, comes from Oregon State University, where he was a researcher focusing on underwater

NEWPORT – The Lincoln County Sheriff’s office is hosting its annual “shred day” from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Aug. 19 in the the Lincoln County Courthouse parking lot, 225 W. Olive St. The event is an effort to combat identity theft and financial fraud and help Lincoln County residents protect their personal privacy. Shred Day is a free event open to

TIDEWATER – A 69-year-old Tidewater man is in the Lincoln County jail after his arrest Wednesday on seven charges including a bias crime after a fight stemming from a long-running property line dispute with a neighbor. Ronald E. Labrousse is being held on $500,000 bail on accusations of committing a bias crime, coercion, fourth-degree assault, strangulation, menacing, tempering with evidence,

NEWPORT – Allow a little more time getting into or out of downtown Newport for two weeks beginning Sunday. Traffic on the Yaquina Bay bridge will be down to one lane overnight for two weeks beginning Sunday, Aug. 13, and lasting until Friday, Aug. 25 to allow work on the bridge deck. The one-lane closure begins at 7 o’clock each

A Waldport man faces two counts of first-degree sex abuse for allegedly fondling the breasts of a 14-year-old girl June 1, 2022. Jeremy T. Mabe, 49, was arrested Wednesday and booked into the Lincoln County Jail where he is being held on a $250,000 bond. A plea of not guilty was filed on his behalf by circuit judge Joseph Allison,

NEWPORT — One man is dead and another has been detained following a shooting just before 1 p.m. Wednesday on the Yaquina Bay Bridge. Newport police officers immediately detained a man after responding to the bridge about 12:54 p.m, according to Police Chief Jason Malloy. They found the body of a man who had been shot at least once on

NEWPORT — Lincoln County crews cut down five Cypress trees from the north lawn of the courthouse over the weekend that were growing into the building and had rotting, diseased limbs potentially threatening people and property. The five trees, all Leyland cypresses, were planted as part of a beautification effort during the 1980s, the county said. The trees’ limbs

The Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission, as expected, has indefinitely adopted regulations intended to reduce whale entanglements from deep vertical ropes that connect surface buoys with commercial crabbing gear. The regulations, which are scheduled to be reviewed in two years, were unanimously endorsed by commissioners at a meeting in Salem on Friday. Without the action, the rules would have automatically