Mac unveils new plan to pay for parks
McMinnville City Council is moving toward quadrupling a development charge for new homes and adding fees for commercial and industrial projects to pay for park upgrades over the next 15 years. System ...
Dayton city hall relocates; Rucklos announces resignation
Dayton City Hall has relocated next door and the new office in the city annex building opened its doors Wednesday after staff moved over the holiday weekend. The relocation from the former city hall at ...
Bills debated, dead or dying as session hits midpoint
The five-week Oregon legislative session started in February with more than 260 bills aimed at tackling issues from roads funding to data privacy to school funding to federal immigration and tax policies.
Response to illegal fire leads to drug bust in Mac
Charles Alfred Cook, 66, a transient, was arrested on felony drug charges after a McMinnville Police officer responded to a reported violation of fire and camping ordinances. On Tuesday, Feb. ...
Dallas man charged with rape, assault at remote campsite
A Dallas man was arrested Feb. 15 after a woman reported she was held against her will, strangled unconscious multiple times, beaten with a tree limb and raped at a remote campsite off of Southwest Little ...
Local nonprofit helps fix student's last-minute crisis
After growing up in rural Yamhill County and spending her freshman year at Linfield University in McMinnville, Jamie Shevchenko was eager to experience other parts of the world and learn about ...
Shakespeare pieces take stage at Gallery
Gallery Theater will present “Shakespeare’s Auditoria,” a collection of scenes, monologues and sonnets performed by about 20 actors, at 7:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday, Feb. 20-21, in the ...
Evergreen receive 30,000-pound ‘bunker buster’ bomb
A huge bomb was sitting on a flatbed truck that pulled up to the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museums earlier this month — a GBU-57 Massive Ordnance Penetrator; the largest non-nuclear weapon ever ...
Quirk of the Week: This sign no longer belongs here
An inexplicable five-year relic is the focus of this edition. It’s a 2020-installed roadside sign next to one you might have seen reading “You Belong Here.” The smaller, obsolete sign ...
Court Records: Feb. 18, 2026
CIVIL FILINGS Deere & Company vs. Red Dirt Vineyard Management and Winemaking LLC and Miguel Angel Lopez: Granted $83,662.17 judgment. Onemain Financial Group, LLC vs. William O. Galvez: Granted ...
Carlton man indicted on child and animal exploitation images
Scott Andrew Wilson, 43, of Carlton was arraigned Tuesday on six counts of first-degree encouraging child sexual abuse, a Class B felony, and two counts of encouraging the sexual assault of an animal, ...
Photos: Lunar New Year
Free event welcomes families to usher in the Year of the Horse with performances, vendors and children’s activities
Along the Street: Students learn by investing
Jesus Espinoza Flores, Riley Martin and other students in McMinnville High School’s consumer finance class invested “funds” in the stock market during the fall semester. For many, doing ...
Neighbors appeal rural Newberg church
Chehalem Christian Fellowship is seeking a permanent home in rural Newberg, but neighbors say plans for 200-plus attendees at weekly services will disrupt their way of life. After several postponements, ...
