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Rare Sight: Colossal Sunfish Washes Up on Oregon Coast
What a shocking sight it is! A giant sunfish has washed up on Oregon's coast. The 5 foot Mola mola washed ashore near Sunset Beach on Thursday. According to the Seaside Aquarium, the fish can get up to 10 feet in size and weigh as much as 5,000 pounds. This particular species doesn't have a swim bladder, rendering them slow-moving and at the whim of drifting whichever way the ocean current is flowing. They're known to eat jellyfish and squid.
Understanding Measure 118 and Its Impact
This article brought to you courtesy of Claudia Yakos, Executive Director of the Forest Grove/Cornelius Chamber of Commerce News-Times Insider. Sponsored content. Dear Business Community and Residents, We want to bring an important issue to your attention: Measure 118, a proposed sales tax, will be on the November ballot. This measure could have significant implications for our local economy, businesses, and community. ...
Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek throws support behind Owyhee Canyonlands national monument
Gov. Tina Kotek threw her support behind the latest movement to establish a national monument in southeast Oregon’s Owyhee Canyonlands. Kotek’s support is the latest in a chorus of voices from conservation groups and local tribes asking President Joe Biden to use the Antiquities Act to protect around 2.5 million acres of rugged...
Fate of Kroger-Albertsons merger could be decided within few weeks
U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden D-Oregon, a vocal opponent of a proposed merger of Kroger and Albertsons grocery stores, said key decisions regarding the merger could be made by early September. The Kroger chain includes Safeway, Albertson and QFC. Speaking from the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Wyden last week told the Portland Tribune that a lawsuit to block the merger and a counter-suit are both winding their way through courts. ...
Court date changed for Emerald Williams
PENDLETON – Emerald Williams’ manslaughter trial stemming from an incident at the Red Tea Garden in February has been delayed a month. It was originally scheduled for Sept. 4-5. “Ms. (Jaclyn) Jenkins and I are in the process of going through that and preparing for that, Umatilla County District Attorney Dan Primus said. We’ll have that trial coming up in October.”
Due to algae bloom, ODFW doesn't plan to suspend fishing limits as Thief Valley Reservoir nearly empties
The current health warning due to an algae bloom at Thief Valley Reservoir means the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife likely won’t cancel the fishing bag and size limits. The agency has done so in several years when the reservoir, which supplies irrigation water to the Keating Valley, nearly empties. In some years ODFW allowed people to catch fish by hand or dip net when the reservoir ...
The future of native Willamette River fish is in limbo
The fate of threatened native fish in Oregon's Upper Willamette River Basin remains in limbo after a federal agency missed a key deadline to file a report to Congress on whether eight hydroelectric dams are still necessary. Why it matters: Altered river flows and blocked spawning routes caused by the...
Eight health systems want to operate Oregon’s largest coastal hospital in Coos Bay
COOS BAY — At least eight health systems, including some in Oregon, are interested in operating Bay Area Hospital as leaders of the Coos Bay faciilty look for a partner to help with its longstanding financial woes. Starting Sept. 3, executives of the hospital and its board will start...
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