Multiple causes likely in Mac football case

Multiple factors were likely the cause of illnesses that struck members of the McMinnville High School football team last month, the Oregon Health Authority announced today after releasing a preliminary report.

Wheatland Ferry re-opens

House burns near Yamhill

Firefighters from Carlton, Gaston, Yamhill and several other departments fought a two-alarm house fire this morning at 17873 Stillers Mill Road.

Paving due in older part of Mac

Crews will finish grinding asphalt off McMinnville streets, in the area just northeast of downtown, in time to spend Monday and Tuesday laying new asphalt, according to project manager Roy Markee.

Highway 47 is back open following hay truck crash

Both lanes of Highway 47 south of Gaston, between Flett and Wapato roads, were opened to traffic about 1:30 a.m. today following a closure of about 12 hours after a tractor-double trailer rig crashed Tuesday afternoon, spilling hay across the road and bringing down four power poles and lines.

Five-alarm fire burns through 74 acres of stubble and brush

Every Yamhill County fire agency and crews from Polk and Washington counties and the state Department of Forestry responded to a five-alarm fire Saturday afternoon west of Yamhill between Gerrish Valley and Oak Hill roads that burned through 74 acres of stubble field and brush.

Deputies pull pair from Willamette

DAYTON — A 38-year-old woman and 12-year-old girl were on a rescue mission when they had to be pulled to safety themselves Friday night by two reserve deputies from the Yamhill County Sheriff’s Office Marine Patrol.

Fire guts Yamhill home along Highway 47

A Tuesday afternoon destroyed an older two-story, wood frame home just south of the Yamhill city limits at 16357 Highway 47.