By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews While they wait for a judge’s ruling on vacation rental regulations, Lincoln County commissioners took the pre-emptive step Friday of putting a 1-year moratorium on issuing […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Linda Hetzler is the well-known owner and operator of a popular restaurant, a small hardware store and a boutique hotel in Yachats and knows the struggles […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews After more than a year of legal wrangling, some decisions may be coming this summer on the legality of Lincoln County’s short-term rental regulations in […]
By QUINTON SMITH and GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews After three months of almost no rain and the likelihood of little more until October, Lincoln County commissioners Wednesday asked Gov. Tina Kotek […]
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 […]
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews The passage of emergency legislation providing $96 million to restructure Oregon’s public defense commission may take a while to impact a shortage of public defenders and […]
By QUINTON SMITH/YachatsNews Lincoln County commissioners plan to allocate $3.6 million in pandemic relief funds to 11 projects ranging from two winter homeless shelters, to affordable housing to beginning […]
By TED SICKINGER/The Oregonian, OregonLive PacifiCorp doesn’t dispute that its equipment ignited some of the fires that burned in Oregon on Labor Day 2020, but it has denied responsibility for […]
This is the first of a two-part series on homelessness in Lincoln County and a $1 million pilot program to help tackle the crisis. This first article seeks to […]
By GARRET JAROS/YachatsNews Turning around a life that is well along the path to rock bottom is near impossible. And rising from the ashes of rock bottom – requires […]
