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Alaska Airlines has announced it will offer daily, year-round, nonstop service between Eugene Airport and San Diego International Airport starting June 15. Daily flights will depart Eugene at 11:30 a.m. and arrive in San Diego at 1:50 p.m. Flights from San Diego will leave at 2:30 p.m. and arrive in Eugene at 4:50 p.m. The flights will be aboard Embraer

WALDPORT – Get your quarters ready – the only public laundromat in south Lincoln County is reopening Wednesday. Crews for Sweet Homes Vacation Getaways are cleaning up Tuesday from construction work and will reopen the SudSea laudromat with coffee and doughnuts from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Wednesday. Sweet Homes closed the facility in December after repeated breakdowns of washers

YACHATS — A 78-year-old Yachats resident is suing the city for more than $250,000 over injuries she received last year stepping into a hole in a steel sidewalk grate. The incident occurred July 18 on the sidewalk along U.S. Highway 101 near Leroy’s Blue Whale restaurant. Court records indicate the city has not yet been served with the lawsuit. According

Lincoln County’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate continues to rise, reaching 5.8 percent in December – up more than a full percentage point since July. The Oregon Employment Department said Tuesday that Oregon’s statewide unemployment rate for December was 4.5 percent, the fifth consecutive month it has risen from its low of 3.5 percent last July. The national average was 3.5

YACHATS – The Yachats Rural Fire Protection District board has been unable to hold its first meeting of the year — and decide how to give firefighters enough of a raise to counteract inflation — for lack of a quorum Monday and earlier this month. The five-member board discussed a cost-of-living increase for employees in December but asked for more

NEWPORT – The Newport News-Times, which has been publishing twice a week since 1993, will cut back to a one day a week on Friday, Feb. 10. The paper announced the change in a news story Friday. Publisher Jeremy Burke said a significant decline in advertising due to the pandemic, staff shortages and increasing production costs led to the “difficult

A 71-year-old Lincoln County man was killed Thursday, Jan. 19, when his small SUV collided head on with another vehicle on the Oregon Highway 18 bypass west of Dundee. Oregon State Police said John W. McKevitt of Lincoln City died at the scene of the 4:30 p.m. collision. Police said McKevitt was headed west in his Toyota Rav4 when for

The last in the three-month series of king tides returns to the Oregon coast this weekend. In Oregon, king tides occur three months in the winter and three times during the summer when the Earth, moon and sun align to produce the highest tides of the year – ranging from 9 to 12 feet on the central Oregon coast.