Lincoln County Sheriff's Office

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.

The search for a 2½-year-old boy who had been missing 11 days ended Tuesday when a diver found and recovered his body from the Siletz River three miles downstream from his family’s riverside home.

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.

A 2½-year-old boy missing since Saturday from his parents’ property along the Siletz River appears to have last been at the water’s edge before he disappeared,

Boats and divers from the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office and four other departments combed the Siletz River on Monday looking for a 2½-year-old boy missing since Saturday.

More than 100 search and rescue personnel four counties were racing against time Sunday to find a 2½-year-old boy missing from property along the Siletz River since Saturday afternoon.

A Lincoln County grand jury found a Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy justified in his use of deadly force in November when he shot and killed a 38-year-old Waldport woman after she pointed an AK-47 assault rifle at him.

What began Sunday afternoon as a private celebration to honor the U.S. Marine Corps ended tragically for a Waldport woman with mental health issues after she confronted and then was shot and killed by a Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputy.

Landers was appointed by county commissioners to the vacant position in June 2016, elected for the first time five months later and re-elected in 2020, running unopposed both times.

A police dog in Lincoln County that’s trained to sniff out hidden electronics will be the only one of its kind in Oregon.

Sheriff’s deputies in Lincoln County will no longer respond to most non-emergency calls.

Lincoln County continues to experience its highest number of COVID-19 cases during the pandemic.