Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has downgraded the recreational use health advisory to a precaution for Eckman Lake. OHA issued the advisory on August 28th. Water monitoring has confirmed that the level of cyanotoxins in Eckman Lake are below recreational guideline values for people. However, levels detected are still above OHA’s educational guideline values for dogs, and owners should keep their pets away from areas with blooms. OHA advises recreational visitors to continually

ODOT has been talking with officials in Lincoln City to look at ways to improve walking, biking and rolling along U.S. 101. This project is focused on the downtown area between SW Beach Street and SW 51st Avenue. The effort is known as an Urban Design Verification, or UDV, study. The goal of this study is to find cost-effective ways to make travel safer and easier for people to walk, bike or roll through the Taft District. The project is also focused on supporting the local e

On October 20, 2026, Newport Police officers were notified that the Vietnam Veterans Memorial had been vandalized with graffiti consisting of the word “Peace”, a peace symbol accompanied by two exclamation marks, and other words/symbols. This discovery prompted an investigation that has since identified over a dozen additional instances of similar graffiti on and beneath the Yaquina Bay Bridge, multiple locations east along SW Bay Boulevard, near Walgreens and Starbucks, and