PORTLAND — The proposed 2013 ocean salmon seasons announced by the Pacific Fishery Management Council this week include good news for sport and commercial anglers off the Oregon Coast.

Recreational and commercial troll Chinook salmon fishing on the central and south coast looks especially good thanks to strong returns to the Sacramento and Klamath rivers. Anglers on the north coast also can expect good returns of Chinook to the Columbia River but quotas will be similar to last year. 

Officers from different agencies draw guns Tuesday during a training scenario at an abandoned school.

I knew he wouldn’t shoot me, but rather the “bad guy” standing next to me.

I was laying on the floor of a classroom at the abandoned Cape Blanco Elementary school in Langlois on Tuesday, taking photographs of Watson and other law enforcement officers participating in an “active shooting” training session.

Humboldt State University‘s Lori Dengler checks out a boat, found on South Beach Sunday, that is coated with gooseneck barnacles. Wescom News Service/Bryant Anderson

“This is the first piece of debris that we will be sending through the consulate (general of Japan),” said Sherry Lippiatt, the NOAA Marine Debris Program’s California regional coordinator.  “There hasn’t been any other debris in California with unique markings that could possibly be even traced back to the tsunami.”

Brookings City Attorney Martha Rice has completed a draft home rule charter for the county – and already a group of citizens is eager to run with it.

City Manager Gary Milliman presented the draft document at its city council meeting Monday evening.

Brookings City Council unanimously threw its support behind Senate Bill 173 – a possible alternative to House Bill 3453 that would allow the state to restructure the services a fiscally insolvent county needs to provide and bill the county for its services.

The Brookings City Council has drawn a line in the sand trap regarding the immediate future of Salmon Run golf course.

Council members agreed Monday to give course manager Ed Murdock five weeks to formulate a business plan for the course with three other investors he hopes to line up to come in and save the course’s bottom line.