WALDPORT – Jeff Hood of Albany and a friend got an unexpected and unwanted helicopter ride Tuesday night. Hood was crabbing Tuesday afternoon in Alsea Bay when the motor in […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has started a six-month experiment for scheduling patrol deputies because it has been too short-staffed to cover some shifts or duties. […]
By BREEANA LAUGHLIN/YachatsNews.com Although it cancelled a scaled down in-person event again this year, organizers of 45th annual Newport’s Seafood and Wine Festival are trying to keep the tradition […]
By QUINTON SMITH and JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Sensing that a personnel-sharing agreement with Seal Rock is going to end soon, the Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue Board […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com YACHATS – Wednesday’s Yachats City Council meeting was probably not the way councilors wanted to show new city manager Heide Lambert how they operate. Just three […]
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com A wildfire that all but destroyed the community of Otis in September 2020 was caused by negligence when PacifiCorp failed to shut down its power lines […]
By JORDAN ESSOE/YachatsNews.com Residents of south Lincoln County will soon have fewer places to recycle their electronic waste for free – but an uproar over the change may only […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – It didn’t take long Thursday for a 91-year-old blighted building in downtown Waldport to bite the dust. A large track hoe and debris trucks […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com The legal fight over Lincoln County’s new restrictions on vacation rentals will likely take place in local court, not before the Oregon Land Use Board of […]
By ZACH URNESS/Salem Statesman Journal It was another record-smashing year for the number of people who hiked, camped and explored Oregon’s outdoors, but whether that’s a good or bad […]
