Waldport

The Lincoln County School District is asking voters this month to approve a $73 million facilities bond.

Lincoln County’s presiding judge ruled Thursday that the Waldport city council had to reinstate Heide Lambert as mayor until there is time to decide whether her removal last month was legal.

In the upcoming election, Central Oregon Coast Fire and Rescue is asking voters to approve the same levy increase that was rejected last November. This time around, four jobs are on the line.

One week after she was removed as Waldport’s mayor, Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies cited Heide Lambert for disorderly conduct Thursday when she came to a city council meeting and refused to leave the seat normally occupied by the city’s top elected official.

Union firefighters at Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue were given notice last week that potential layoffs loom for the cash-strapped agency.

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.

The mother of a 25-year-old Waldport woman killed in a collision with a Yachats ambulance in January has filed a $6 million lawsuit against the Yachats Rural Fire Protection District and the private, nonprofit ambulance company that it staffs.

Central Oregon Coast Fire & Rescue in Waldport is asking voters to approve a higher property tax in this November’s election.

Waldport Mayor Greg Holland announced his immediate resignation from office on social media early Wednesday.

The Waldport community and educators at its two schools are reeling from the death of a beloved second-grade teacher in a head-on crash Tuesday on U.S. Highway 20 east of Blodgett.

Fire officials estimate $100,000 to $150,000 in damages but said that could increase because of the considerable smoke damage inside the church.