Waldport

Opponents of Waldport’s mayor have been given the green light to gather signatures to try to force her out of office.

The owner of the Alsi Resort Hotel in Bayshore has agreed not to sign a contract to house Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents after an hour-long negotiation Thursday with the Waldport city manager.

More than 100 people packed a Waldport City Council meeting Wednesday night to express opposition to even the possibility of an ICE detention facility in the city.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission has several active cases in western Oregon.

Protesters took to bridges across Oregon Thursday for "Good Trouble" day, honoring the legacy of the late lawmaker and civil rights activist John Lewis.

The Waldport city council voted unanimously Tuesday to return mayor Heide Lambert to office and dismiss charges that she violated the city charter in March.

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.