Lincoln Chronicle

A man drowned after falling into Thor’s Well near Cape Perpetua on Monday — the third death since 2017 at the Oregon coast landmark.

After the Oregon Legislature approved the agency’s 2025-27 budget without money for the hatchery, the time has come to begin winding down operations, ODFW officials announced this week.

A major project to overhaul a portion of U.S. Highway 101 and restructuring Newport’s City Center just got the green light.

Lincoln County Commissioner Claire Hall is recuperating at Samaritan Pacific Communities Hospital after falling and breaking her right hip and shoulder in her office.

The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office has cut its marine patrols by more than half after the state agency that provides the bulk of its funding lost a federal grant over Homeland Security conflicts with Oregon’s sanctuary laws.

The Oregon coast’s only wooden intact lighthouse was reunited with its lantern Tuesday, as the $1.8 million restoration of the Yaquina Bay Lighthouse nears completion.

The petition to recall Hall passed preliminary requirements Tuesday. It's the second recent recall effort in Lincoln County.

With arms that once flexed and reached to the sky, the limbs of the beloved Sitka spruce “muscle tree” at the entrance of Yaquina Bay State Park, now stop short.

Beginning July 1, electric-assisted bicycles will be allowed in most areas of Oregon state parks where regular bicycles currently are allowed, and on almost all wet-sand stretches of the state’s 363 miles of ocean beaches.

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

With national policy obviously out of the hands of local and state officials, tourism industry executives and others are now racing to figure out how widespread — and potentially damaging — any dramatic drop off of Canadian visitors could be.

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.