Oregon Housing and Community Services (OHCS) will begin accepting new applications again for the Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program (OERAP) starting on Wed., Jan. 26, 2022. The state paused accepting new applications in early December due to dwindling funding and the need to make sys… Read more

The distant tsunami advisory affecting beaches, harbors, marinas, and ports on Saturday, January 15, 2022 has been cancelled. Read more

Oregon Health Authority (OHA) will release new COVID-19 contact tracing and notification recommendations for K-12 settings to lessen the overall burden of contact tracing on K-12 schools, while ensuring school staff and health officials continue tracing and reporting high-risk exposures. Read more

Tillamook County Health Department reports 53 COVID-19 cases for the weekend case count, from Jan. 7-9, and 129 cases for the 7-day case count, from Jan. 2-8. The 14-day case count was 220 from Dec. 26 through Jan. 8. Read more

The American Red Cross is facing a national blood crisis – its worst blood shortage in more than a decade. Dangerously low blood supply levels are posing a concerning risk to patient care and forcing doctors to make difficult decisions about who receives blood transfusions and who will need … Read more

Oregon Health Authority is moving to an opt-in model for investigating COVID-19 cases, launching a new website and hotline as a way for people who test positive for the virus to report results from an at-home test kit or testing provider. Read more

With the surge of COVID-19 cases, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has ordered an increase of National Guard members for the second hospital relief mission, with up to 1,200 Oregon Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen mobilized as of Wednesday, Jan. 12. Read more

There are 31 new COVID-19-related deaths in Oregon, raising the state’s death toll to 5,845, Oregon Health Authority (OHA) reported at 12:01 a.m. today. Read more

An upper level trough of low pressure is giving us some patchy fog with light rain and drizzle this morning which should ease this afternoon as the trough continues off to the east. Winds becoming southwesterly 4-8, highs near 52, the remaining slight rain chance end tonight with high pressu… Read more

With the growth of the highly contagious Omicron variant and the demand for Covid-19 tests rising throughout the state, Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is advising Oregonians to watch for testing sites that seem suspicious, or vendors that are selling at-home tests for sky-high prices. Read more

With the surge of COVID-19 cases, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has ordered an increase of National Guard members for the second hospital relief mission, with up to 1,200 Oregon Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen mobilized as of Wednesday, Jan. 12. Read more

The Oregon Health Authority (OHA) has provided the state’s hospitals with an interim crisis care tool to help them prioritize treatment if they reach a point when critical care beds, specialized equipment, such as ventilators, and other resources become scarce due to surging COVID-19 admissions. Read more

The Western States Scientific Safety Review Workgroup recently completed its review of the federal process and has recommended expanding Pfizer-BioNTech booster dose eligibility to anyone 12 years of age and older who completed their primary vaccination series at least five months ago. Read more

Two cases of the COVID-19 variant, Omicron, have been detected in Tillamook County. Following Oregon Health Authority guidelines for variant sequencing, Tillamook County Public Health requested variant sequencing by the state lab for samples collected on 12/26/2021. Due to the limited capaci… Read more

Tillamook County Health Department reports 41 COVID-19 cases from Dec. 31 through Jan. 2 for the weekend case count, 91 from Dec. 26 through Jan. 1 for the 7-day case count, and 118 cases from Dec. 19 through Jan. 1 for the 14-day case count. The total number of cases for December was 256. A… Read more