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Wisehart retiring as Reedsport Police Chief

REEDSPORT -- Police Chief Duane Wisehart is retiring. → Read More

Reedsport school bus driver arrested for sexual assault

A Reedsport school bus driver was arrested earlier this month for allegedly assaulting women while wearing a ski mask in isolated parking lots along the coast. → Read More

Herbal Choices sues City of Reedsport for $315K

REEDSPORT — Herbal Choices, a marijuana dispensary with several locations around Coos County, is suing the city of Reedsport for $315,000 after it allegedly violated the business’ first amendment right → Read More

FEMA hosts meeting on flood mapping in Reedsport

REEDSPORT — Around 80 people packed the room in the Reedsport Community Center last Tuesday to learn more about how the Federal Emergency Management Agency's changes to flood mapping will → Read More

Apartment catches fire in Reedsport

REEDSPORT — An apartment caught fire in the 700 block of Winchester Avenue in Reedsport on Wednesday morning. → Read More

Coquille woman allegedly stabbed boyfriend in the neck

COQUILLE — A 60-year-old Coquille woman was charged with multiple counts of assault after allegedly stabbing a man in the neck in her trailer on Oct. 17. → Read More

Coos Bay welcomes north-bound drivers with new sign

COOS BAY — Puzzled motorists passing the construction just south of the Shell gasoline station in Coos Bay will soon see a new welcome sign and landscaping. → Read More

Virus found in Coos Bay horse

COOS BAY — A Coos Bay horse has been diagnosed with a mutated form of an equine herpes virus-1, which can cause illness in horses. → Read More

Small Business Development Center's Arlene Soto bids farewell to Coos Bay

COOS BAY — After more than a decade, Arlene Soto is leaving the helm of Southwestern Oregon Community College’s Small Business Development Center. → Read More

Coquille Valley Wildlife Area opens this week

COQUILLE — The Coquille Valley Wildlife Area is reopening to the public at the end of this week. The area has been closed since May for habitat restoration. → Read More

ODFW amps up monitoring of fatal deer/elk disease

OREGON — The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is on the lookout for an untreatable, fatal disease that impacts elk and deer herds. → Read More

Trick-or-treaters fill downtown Coos Bay

COOS BAY — Little superheroes and princesses flooded the streets of downtown Coos Bay last night for the annual “Trick-or-Treat” event hosted by the Coos Bay Downtown Association. → Read More

Kids, staff poisoned by pesticide at Coos Bay daycare

COOS BAY — Dozens of children and employees at the Coos Bay Children’s Academy were poisoned by a pesticide earlier this spring, according to an investigation by the Oregon Health → Read More

Chief nursing officer gets back to her roots in rural hospital

COQUILLE — Last year, Barbara Van Duren knew she wanted to get out of the city. → Read More

Wanted sex offender arrested in Powers

COOS COUNTY — A 79-year-old predatory sex offender was arrested in Powers after absconding from the Oregon State Parole Board in 2011. → Read More

ODFW looks at reclassifying marbled murrelet

SALEM — Marbled murrelets could be re-listed as endangered under Oregon’s Endangered Species Act. → Read More

Measure 101 worries healthcare industry

COOS COUNTY — Come January, Oregon voters will have to decide if they want to overturn a health care tax plan approved by the legislature this summer to address a → Read More

Coos County Urban Renewal Agency holds open house

COOS BAY — Coos County’s Urban Renewal Agency has made further alterations to its North Bay District’s 2017 plan amendment. → Read More

China Camp Creek Project is now complete

COQUILLE — The China Camp Creek Project, which set out to replace aging tide gates in the Beaver Slough Drainage District in an effort to improve salmon habitat and increase → Read More

Coalition asks North Bend to support housing study

NORTH BEND — Advocates of a Coos County housing study met with the North Bend City Council at its work session Monday, asking the city to support the effort. → Read More