MDA presents honors, including volunteer and Wally Wright awards
Outgoing Mayor Scott Hill received the revived Wally Wright Award during the McMinnville Downtown Association annual awards event Thursday at The Bindery. The Wright Award was created in 1999 to ...
Money taken from Chase Bank ATM
The Chase bank ATM, located at 1675 N.E. Highway 99W, was broken into and an undisclosed amount of money was taken at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday. The involved subjects used a stolen pickup to commit ...
Victims of Sunday's fatal crash on Highway 18 identified
April 14 Update: Names of the four victims of the Sunday crash on Highway 18 near the McMinnville Airport have been released. The occupants of the gray sedan have been identified as Huy Nguyen, 46, of ...
Four die in fiery Highway 18 crash
Four people died in a fiery two-vehicle crash about two miles east of McMinnville on Highway 18 in the area of Southeast Cruickshank Road Sunday morning. Law enforcement and medical personnel responded ...
Willamina Creek closed below falls through May 22
ODFW is closing a section of Willamina Creek to fishing beginning today through May 21 due to concerns about illegal targeting of winter steelhead. Willamina Creek is now closed to all angling between ...
7-Eleven hit by another robbery
The McMinnville 7-Eleven convenience store at 901 S.W. Baker St., was robbed again just after 12 a.m. April 7, the second time in a month that the store has been hit. According to McMinnville police, ...
Three Mile Lane 'diversion' bridge opens to traffic
Traffic began crossing McMinnville’s newest – albeit temporary – bridge starting at noon Wednesday. The diversion bridge over South Yamhill River on Three Mile Lane Road is the new thoroughfare ...
Driver allegedly crashes stolen vehicle, flees, later captured
A Hillsboro man was captured with the assistance of a K-9 team after allegedly crashing a stolen SUV and then fleeing the scene on foot early Friday morning. Police identified him as Caleb Watson Sprenger, ...
Mac RV Sales owner indicted on aggravated theft charges
Ruben Dominic Bernt, owner of Mac RV Sales, 4075 N.E. Three Mile Lane, has been indicted by a Yamhill County Grand Jury on 27 counts of first-degree aggravated theft and three counts of first-degree ...
McMinnville teacher arrested in Washington
The News-Register staff Police in Redmond, Wash., arrested a McMinnville fourth-grade teacher during spring break on charges of “communicating with a minor for immoral purposes” and attempted ...
Journalist, author Floyd McKay dies
Journalist Floyd McKay, a McMinnville High School and Linfield graduate, died March 4 in Bellingham, where he had lived since retirement. He was 86. Service information has not yet been announced. During ...
Playing the market: Mac students try stocks virtually
McMinnville High School students have a chance to play the market — using virtual money to invest in stocks — in an economics and personal finance class with curriculum supported ...
Stopping By: Looking out for her veterans
Debra Godwin, Oregon District president of the American Legion Auxiliary, works with and for people who’ve served their country. She never refers to them as “the veterans.” Instead, ...
Disturbing the peace?: Cemetery fight pits farm store against families
Yamhill County Commissioners are presiding over a fight to determine whether the parcel next to Evergreen Memorial Park Cemetery on Lone Oak Road outside of McMinnville should be changed to light industrial, ...
