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12/13/2025

12/13/2025

12/12/2025

Highway is closed at SW 68th Street

2:39pm - Highway will be back open in about 5 minutes.

1:55pm – Newport Fire, Newport Police and Pacific West Ambulance enroute to a crash on Highway 101. 1:58pm – Vehicle is upside down in the water at Highway 101 and SW 68th Street. Drive…

12/12/2025

12/12/25 8:41am

PSA** there is an active rock slide on Hwy 229 Mp 14, possibly impacting several homes, please avoid area and give emergency crews space to work to make sure everyone in the area is ok and accounted for.

9:22am - Siletz Fire, North Lincoln Fire and Lincoln County Rope team are enroute to the slide. 2 people are trapped, not severely and they are looking for one person. 4 houses are severely impacted. There is already several Sheriff Deputies in there area

9:31am - All expect one male is accounted for as he went to look at the slide earlier. Most of the houses impacted sound like were vacation homes. Deputies are requesting an ETA of fire

9:33am - Siletz Fire is onscene.

9:35am - Continuing rope team code 3. Having a Pacific West Ambulance head that way code 1 as a precaution to the South Side of the slide. Missing person is on the North Side of the slide so North Lincoln Fire is going to meet with Deputies onscene.

9:41am - located final missing person on the North side of unit.

9:38pm - All power to the down power lines is off.

9:53am - Cancelled medic and Rope team to South side of the slide. Rerouting rope team to North side as a precautionary measure.

10:13am - Sounds like this is also impacting the river. They are working to figure out how much the river is impacted. Sheriff is enroute with a drone to get a visual.

12/12/2025

12/12/2025

Work on Taft Elementary School's new music room is really humming along!

12/12/2025

Winter Spirit Week is next week!

12/12/2025

12/12/2025

Incident: Vehicle Pursuit
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Location: Highway 101 & 150 NE 20th Street

Details: On December 11th, at around 1148 hours, Newport Police Officers received information from area law enforcement agency of vehicle that was suspected to be involved in a burglary from the Waldport, OR area. Officers were provided surveillance photos detailing the vehicle description.

While searching the Newport area for the vehicle, a Newport Police officer observed a vehicle matching the description parked in the parking lot of 150 NE 20th Street, (Fred Meyer). While the Officer waited for assistance from other officers, he exited his car to contact the vehicle driver, giving him orders to remain in the vehicle. The driver (later identified as Tyler MULLEN, age 32) did not comply with lawful orders and began to leave in the vehicle. MULLEN drove over a curb and fled the area in the vehicle traveling out of the parking lot and then northbound on Highway 101.

The officer returned to his patrol car and attempted to stop MULLEN with his lights and sirens. MULLEN refused to stop and continued driving northbound on Hwy 101 at a high rate of speed. At Highway 101 and NW 25th Street intersection, MULLEN clipped a vehicle in the turn lane, causing minor damage, but causing no injures to the vehicle’s driver, and did not stop.

Officers continued to pursue MULLEN on the highway and were able to contact partnering agencies ahead of the pursuit to setup tire spike strips. MULLEN drove over the spike strips causing damage to multiple tires. The vehicle eventually suffered loss of traction near SE 51 Street in Lincoln City, OR and would not travel any further. MULLEN exited the vehicle and attempted to flee on foot, where he was ultimately restrained by construction workers at the scene. MULLEN was placed under arrest and refused to identify himself.

MULLEN was transported to the Lincoln County Jail where he was fingerprinted, revealing his identity along with providing a photograph of him. This revealed he had active warrants for his arrest for a probation violation out of the Oregon State Parole Board.

In addition to the arrest warrant, MULLEN was lodged at the Lincoln County Jail for the following charges:

Tyler MULLEN, 32

• Fleeing or Attempting to Elude Police Officer (Felony)
• Fleeing or Attempting to Elude Police Officer (Misdemeanor)
• Failure to Carry or Present a License
• Reckless Driving
• Reckless Endangering (x2)
• Failure to Perform Duties of a Driver (Misdemeanor x2)

The Newport Police Department would like to thank the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office, Lincoln City Police Department and the Oregon State Police for their assistance during this incident.

The incident remains under investigation. If you have any information regarding this case, please contact Officer Mangum of the Newport Police Department at 541-574-3348. The Newport Police Tip Line is available at 541-574-5455, or Text-a-Tip at 541-270-1856 or [email protected].

Information released by: Lieutenant Gainer, 541-574-3348

12/12/2025

8:32pm – North Lincoln Fire, Depoe Bay Fire enroute to a possible structure fire 8:33pm – A chief officer is arriving in the area and does see a column of smoke. 8:34pm – Chief Of…

12/11/2025

Quite a bit of rain fell during the 72 hours from Sunday, December 7th at 8 am to Wednesday, December 10th at 8 am 2025. Below is a map of observations that have been compiled for the area. For more specific observations, check the Public Information Statement here https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=pqr&issuedby=PQR&product=PNS

12/11/2025

Get ready to LIGHT UP Waldport!