Month: December 2012

Coast Radio News

Local News – 2nd Japanese Dock Washes up on West Coast – Feds Approve Lane Transit Rapid Bus – Injured Deputy Returns to Oregon

Washington Dock likely From Japan A scientist who examined the dock that has washed ashore on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula last week says it looks just like the one that came ashore on a central Oregon beach last summer. John Chapman, an assistant professor of fisheries at Oregon State University’s Hatfield […]

Local News – Viking, Duck, Beaver Basketball & Alamo Bowl

After falling Thursday to Coquille in the Les Schwab South Coast Holiday tourney, the Lady Viks fell in their second game to the North Salem Vikings 49 / 38, before closing out their tournament action Saturday with a 42 / 40 lost to the North Bend Bull dogs. Marshfield claimed […]

3rd AP Oregon Minute

OR–3rd NewsMinute/254 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – Emergency officials say a tour bus that crashed along icy Interstate 84 in eastern Oregon highway was en route from Las Vegas to Vancouver, British Columbia. Oregon State Police say nine people died when […]

2nd AP Oregon Minute

OR–2nd NewsMinute/263 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – The stretch of I-84 in rural Oregon where a tour bus crashed yesterday is so notorious that highway officials have published a specific advisory warning of its dangers. Nine people were killed and more […]

1st AP Oregon Minute

OR–1st NewsMinute/354 Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) – Emergency officials say a tour bus that careened through a guardrail along an icy Oregon highway and several hundred feet down a steep embankment yesterday, killing nine people, was en route from Las Vegas […]

Coast Radio News

Local News – Minimun Wage Increases – Crabbing Season Opens Monday – OSP To Man Roads

Minimum Wage Earners Set for Increase. Approximately 96-thousand low wage workers in Oregon will be getting a raise next week when the Oregon Minimum Wage increases from $8.80 to $8.95 an hour. That’s half as much as last year’s increase, and puts Oregon’s minimum second only to Washington state’s $9.04. […]

Local Sports

Prep Girls Basketball: The Siuslaw girls opened the Les Schwab Holiday Basketball tournament yesterday morning with a 51 / 27 lost to the Coquille Red Devils.  On the Schedule: Collegiate hoop action Saturday pits Oregon State against Towson at 12:30 in Corvallis… Number 13 ranked Oregon State is on the […]