Alsea News

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife's Alsea River Hatchery is scheduled to begin fin-clipping Monday of juvenile fish prior to release.

Lunchtime at Leaping Lamb Farm in Alsea and a toddler scrambles around the henhouse looking for eggs.

It could cost people more to camp and visit federal recreation sites in Oregon, including proposals for the first-ever day-use fees at Elkhorn Valley and Canyon Creek, both operated by the Salem District of the Bureau of Land Management.

Five-year-old Isaiah Woolworth is from Tacoma, but one recent morning, he was in a 1930 barn, dropping hay into a manger and laughing "Baaa" at nearby sheep, some of which answered back.

When drug investigators swept into a Mexican marijuana plantation two years ago in a remote patch of forest near Alsea Falls , they found a 19-year-old grower sound asleep in a drying tent, a stolen double-barrel shotgun at his side.

The only three measures on the Nov. 3 ballot for Marion County voters are proposed by Santiam Canyon towns.

Waldport's mayor, Herman Welch, as of February 2009, has become the first public official to become a registered Independent political figure in the state of Oregon.

The Bureau of Land Management announced $32.4 million to fund 60 projects throughout Oregon and Washington under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.

Though, in Alsea, down in the Coast Range in Benton County, they're apparently hanging justice out to dry on one too.

Authorities in Benton County are looking for some suspects who targeted a teenager.

Ashes are all that's left of a five foot cross left burning in Summer MacLean's front yard.

District Attorney John Haroldson says his office takes hate crimes "very, very seriously," and he would review the case to determine if such charges are warranted.

A white woman who moved with her adopted African-American son to the small Coast Range town of town of Alsea in Benton County says she's shocked someone burned a cross on her lawn.