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WALDPORT – Have a pile of poisons in your garage, a drawer full of old batteries, or florescent lights stacked in a corner? You can get rid of them for free Saturday in Waldport. The Lincoln County Sold Waste District and county garbage haulers are sponsoring their annual hazardous waste collection day – and this year the event is 10

OTIS – A 21-year-old Beaverton man was killed Tuesday morning when the car in which he was riding left Oregon Highway 18 east of Otis, struck a tree and rolled over. Oregon State Police say Jose Contreras-Gonzalez of Beaverton killed about 10:50 a.m. Tuesday when the westbound car driven by Gustavo Contreras-Gonzalez, 20, of Beaverton failed to negotiate a curve

YACHATS — The Yachats City Council barely missed a beat Wednesday when their conversation about hedge heights and nuisance complaints was suddenly disrupted by loud wailing and the appearance of a naked man masturbating on the meeting’s online Zoom link. “The reasonable repair is in the nuisance category, and it’s trying to bring in the issue of … ”

The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the man who slipped an extensive manhunt after being sought in the shooting and serious wounding of a Lincoln City police officer during a traffic stop 12 years ago. The FBI also is adding investigators to find David A. Durham, 56, accused of attempted aggravated murder

Police in Lincoln City are asking for help after several “intentionally set” fires have burned in the Agnes Creek Open Space recreation area just inland from the beach. Police said that over the past few weeks, fire crews have responded to “several fires that started in local wooded areas” and in and near Agnes Creek Open Space. “Officers, firefighters, and

NEWPORT — A mechanical issue at the city of Newport’s wastewater treatment plant caused approximately 1.18 million gallons of “insufficiently treated” sewage to spill into the Pacific Ocean at Nye Beach on Sunday. City manager Spencer Nebel said that a machine that adds chlorine to the city’s wastewater broke down on the day of the spill. Following the initial mechanical

Researchers are visiting nearly two dozen sites along the Oregon coast to find out what visitors know about Oregon’s Marine Reserves and whether their visits will help foster change in habits to help curb climate change. Two groups of two interviewers from Oregon State University will ask random visitors questions focused on education outreach about ocean acidification and whether visiting

GLENEDEN BEACH – A 57-year-old Hillsboro man died Friday afternoon when his bicycle collided with an empty log truck just north of Fogarty Creek State Park. Oregon State Police said Bradley J. Stark of Hillsboro was riding south on his bike “when for unknown reasons it contacted the side” of an empty log truck driven by Richard Wiser of Newport.