Coos Bay News

Coos Bay City Council calls a Special Meeting to decide how to proceed with their Interim City Manager position, even as they continue their search to fill the permanent City Manager role.

Federal officials say a 5.3 magnitude quake off the Oregon coast Wednesday morning did not generate a tsunami.

A brief power outage affected thousands in the North Bend/Coos Bay area on Tuesday, while also clogging traffic at intersections that lost their traffic signals.

Coos Bay City Council is asking for input on their signing an agreement with Jordan Cove Energy LNG Project.

The swine flu vaccine remains scarce, so that means for many people, the best protection against the flu is prevention.

Developers hoping to build a liquefied natural gas terminal on the North Spit of Coos Bay have pushed back plans to start construction until spring 2011.

They're big, they look cuddly and now, they're wandering into coastal communities looking for food.

Despite the chilly weather, vendors were out on Central Avenue for the final Farmers Market of the season on Wednesday, with the rain letting up just in time for a final hurrah in 2009.

Birders observed a rare Brown Booby roosting on a wooden structure in a bay east of Coos Bay on Wednesday.

It was a quick meeting at the Port of Coos Bay Thursday afternoon, although no action was taken on extending property agreements with Jordan Cove.

It took almost two decades and lots of fund-raising, but earlier this year, a local group saw their vision of a community baseball field come to fruition.

Making their way back towards having 24 hour coverage, Oregon State Police have two new Recruit Troopers in Coos Bay, learning the ropes before they become full-fledged Troopers in just a few short months.

Rehabilitation work has finished on one of three tunnels needed to reopen the Coos Bay rail line, the executive director of the Oregon International Port of Coos Bay told Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday.

For the third year in a row, area coffee drinkers can splurge on their favorite treat this Friday with the knowledge that the money they spend at a couple local drive-ups will go to help fight cancer locally.

Coos Bay is the frontline in the struggle to protect the west coast from another intrusive corporate energy product, where Jordan Cove, PG&E and other consortium members plan a pipeline with linear clearcuts across Oregon to the CA border near Malin, OR.

A second season of South Coast Youth Football wraps this weekend, as they hold their end of the year games at Marshfield High School.

Southwestern Oregon Community College continues to draw up architectural plans and complete all of the necessary paperwork and formalities to begin construction on the new Curry Campus at Lone Ranch north of Brookings.

An accident at a busy North Bend intersection in September, that claimed the life of a French tourist, will not result in any criminal charges.

The top job at the Kennewick Irrigation District is being offered to a former city manager at Coos Bay, Ore., who would be paid $105,000 if he accepts it.

The following is from a thoughtful and thought-provoking note that Portland architect Richard Potestio sent to Associate Editor Doug Bates in response to his Sunday commentary on the resurgence of Oakridge, the once-booming lumbermill town that has reinvented itself as a mecca for mountain biking.