Housing laws leave city in ‘reactive role’
State legislation aimed at cutting red tape for housing has already impacted local projects and has the city of McMinnville scrambling to determine what oversight it still has on residential development. Over ...
Stopping By/Yard of the Month: Where connections bloom
McMinnville gardener’s flower- and vegetable-filled front yard a way to engage with neighbors
Former Florida administrator takes interim post in Dayton
New Dayton Interim City Manager Gretchen Cassini spent more than 20 years as an administrator for a county of nearly 2 million people and is transitioning to a city of less than 3,000. The longtime Broward ...
McDougall Corner safety improvements to begin in '27
After years of discussions and planning, the Oregon Department of Transportation is scheduled to install a roundabout and other improvements at the intersection of Highways 99W and 18 — known locally ...
Summer lunch in the park
Families line up for the arrival of the McMinnville School District Nutrition Services van — or this week at Chegwyn Park, for the district’s nutrition bus, its yellow paint covered with images ...
First McMinnville Art Festival to fill Third with creative work
More than 50 artists will show their work, and some will offer art demonstrations Saturday and Sunday, July 18 and 19, during the first McMinnville Art Festival. The free event will coincide with the ...
Imagination with an impact
Not all are willing to answer the call for adventure. But every Sunday, warriors and wizards converge on the grounds of Discovery Meadows Community Park to defend their realm, Specter’s Gate. During ...
Derby Days: frogs, races and fun
Yamhill’s annual festival, Derby Days, will return Friday and Saturday, July 17-18, with all the usual fun and frogs. A frog jumping contest is one of the highlights of the festival, which is built ...
Vintage N-R/Memory Lane: July 10, 2026
10 Years Ago • Newberg residents are hoping that drowning in the Willamette River near Rogers Landing will never happen again now that they have erected a kiosk and stocked it with an array of life ...
Former employee sues McMinnville over termination
A former part-time McMinnville Police Department employee is suing the city for more than $500,000 on allegations she was wrongly dismissed nine days before going on pregnancy leave. Mikayla Hansen filed ...
County Parks prepared for ash borer threat
Yamhill County Parks Manager Travis Pease told the News-Register that the county has been preparing for the emerald ash borer since 2024, when the beetle was discovered near the northern county border. ...
Park brawlers scheduled in court
Several young McMinnville men charged with riot and assault stemming from an April 28 brawl at Joe Dancer Park have court proceedings continuing through the summer. On Thursday, July 2, three of the defendants ...
Arrests & Citations: July 10, 2026
Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Jack Ray Eichhorn Jr, 45, Salem, July 3, Newberg Municipal Court hold; booked into the Yamhill County Jail on $10,000 bail. Josue Alejandro Cruz-Velasquez, 27, Newberg, ...
Lawmakers meet with transporation workgroup
Bipartisanship and earlier deliberations over transportation funding are a priority in the 2027 legislative session, a mostly Democratic group of lawmakers told the business and transportation experts tasked with vetting and recommending ideas to solve the Oregon Department of Transportation’s impending funding shortfall.
Yamhill Fire responds to clover field fire
In the late afternoon of Monday, July 6, the Yamhill Fire Protection District responded to a fire that burned approximately 1.5 acres of cut clover. “The fire is believed to have originated from ...
