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By CASSANDRA PROFITA/Oregon Public Broadcasting Four of the fires that burned across Oregon on Labor Day of 2020 were likely caused by equipment owned by PacifiCorp, according to a fire investigator in a class action lawsuit. The fires burned more than a million acres across the state, destroyed thousands of homes and killed nine people. They were fueled by

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com It took the disappearance of an old bike rack in downtown Yachats for Jocko Doss to realize how few there were in the city. That’s about to change. An avid cyclist, Doss wheels around town almost every day on an electric-assist bike and made a habit of securing it to a bike rack in front of

BY QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com Calling it a “giant step” toward addressing issues with vacation rentals in unincorporated areas of Lincoln County, commissioners voted unanimously Wednesday on a wide-ranging set of new rules governing their numbers and use. But proponents and opponents of a separate vacation rental measure on next Tuesday’s ballot were not impressed, calling the commissioner’s work either incomplete

A 55-year-old Yachats man is in the Lincoln County jail with bail of $750,000 on 11 charges related to a road rage incident Oct. 7 that badly injured three motorcyclists on U.S. Highway 101 just north of Yachats. Dane L. Day of Yachats was booked into jail Monday, following an 18-day investigation by Oregon State Police Trooper Scott Severson. Day

By CHERYL ROMANO/YachatsNews.com Ghoulies and ghosties and even long-legged beasties may be spotted in the area this week, but their presence is no cause for alarm. They’ll be afoot in Yachats and Waldport for two fairly new Halloween traditions. In Yachats, the city has teamed with Yachats Youth & Family Activities Program to plan a safe trick-or-treating event Saturday

By QUINTON SMIth/YachantsNews.com Over the past seven weeks Timothy Hall has seen all the COVID-19 hotspots in Oregon – Malheur County, Grant County, Douglas County – while tooling around with one of the federal government’s “big yellow” vaccine buses. Now he, a team of 23 medical contractors, and the yellow Federal Emergency Management Agency bus have brought thousands of doses

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com WALDPORT – Three new members of the Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue District board got a tongue-lashing from the public, firefighters and even their chaplain Thursday night for their attacks on the fire chief last month during a contentious meeting. After eight members of the public lambasted the trio for not trying to learn more

By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews.com One week after Lincoln County voters got their Nov. 2 ballot in the mail, there’s another important envelope arriving this weekend – your 2021 property tax bill. Lincoln County mailed 45,738 property tax statements on Thursday with the first payment due Nov. 15. Total property taxes, fees and special assessments are up approximately 3.2 percent over

By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews.com At 10:21 a.m. Thursday, pre-school instructor Jodie Dalby noisily shook a rattle to indicate an earthquake was hitting the Yachats Commons. Immediately the seven children in the upstairs classroom wiggled out of their chairs and took shelter under their lunch table. “What do we do, what do we do?” Dalby asked as the kids went through their