Shayla Escudero

Anticipating a hot and dry Fourth of July, the Newport city council voted this week to ban personal fireworks this summer.

Eight months after Lincoln County commissioner Casey Miller was accused of bullying and creating a toxic work environment and told not to work in the courthouse, he now has an office – four blocks to the north.

The lawsuit that triggered trail closures across the state and prompted a change in the interpretation of Oregon law, reached a conclusion Thursday – six years after a Newport woman broke her leg while using the city’s Ocean to Bay Trail.

Months of back-and-forth public conflict between Lincoln County’s district attorney, a commissioner and the county’s attorney has hit a new level with accusations of corruption by one side and calls for a state investigation by the other.

Two days after his body was found in the Siletz River, officials confirmed Thursday that 2-year-old Dane Paulsen died of drowning and had no other injuries.

A handful of volunteers combed through forests and Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies swept miles of the Siletz River on Monday as the search for 2½-year-old Dane Paulsen entered its 10th day.