By CHRISTIAN WIHTOL/YachatsNews With the pandemic over and Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital in Newport back to regular operations, the four-year-old facility is proving stunningly popular with record numbers of […]
Other Yachats Community News
There’s no Bronny James in these parts, but Yachats — and maybe Waldport soon — is installing defibrillators around town
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews When – not if – someone in the Yachats Commons has a cardiac arrest they now have a better chance at survival thanks to a recently-installed […]
Threatened snowy plovers having a very successful nesting season — so far — on the central Oregon coast
By DANA TIMS/YachatsNews Lincoln County’s narrow beaches can make life difficult for western snowy plovers, those diminutive, long-endangered birds that nest in small crevices along the sand. Take last […]
Lincoln County racing to open its first emergency homeless shelters by October, but faces hurdles with staffing, locations
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County officials are on an aggressive timeline to set up a winter emergency shelter program for the homeless within the next two months, seeking someone […]
Voters in Yachats fire district will be asked in November to renew 61-cent tax levy
YACHATS — One year after approving a new, larger tax levy for the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District, voters in the district will get a chance to renew a second […]
Siletz tribal member’s hunt for native foods is also a quest to change 40-year-old Oregon law
By BRIAN BULL/KLCC EUGENE — In a tall, grassy field in West Eugene, a small group of Native Americans dig for camas bulbs, one of their traditional foods. In the […]
After a week in the sand, 16-ton cabin cruiser removed Saturday from the beach south of Newport
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews The Empress is off the beach – and in Toledo for inspection and repairs. Crews from Coastal Towing & Salvage of Ilwaco, Wash. used an excavator, […]
After completing two housing studies, Yachats seeks third grant to help find short- and long-term solutions
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews YACHATS – The data has been collected, potential solutions sorted, and now the recommendations – short and long-term — have been made on how to possibly […]
ODFW lowers fall Chinook salmon limits on mid-coast streams starting Aug. 1, but coho catches likely OK again
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews After two years of higher catch limits, Oregon’s fishery managers are cutting back on Chinook salmon harvests in bays and rivers along the central coast starting […]
With a coin flip to break a 2-2 tie, winner Barry Collins is sworn in as Yachats’ newest city council member
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews YACHATS – Choosing a new city council member came down to a coin toss at Yachats’ city council meeting Wednesday after four current members were split […]