Newport

A six-mile stretch of the trail was closed after the new owner of the land declined access to hikers.

Efforts to expand habitat for the threatened Oregon silverspot butterfly on the central Oregon Coast are finding support from a seldom-used resource: local property owners.

Scores of volunteer scientists performed a mass fish necropsy in Newport last month. Events like this help forecast salmon returns, as climate change has upended more traditional methods.

A humpback whale severely entangled in derelict fishing gear 20 miles offshore of Newport was freed by a team of experts and a local fisherman last week but is unlikely to survive because of damage to its jaw.

OSU artist-in-residence Chet Udell will blend marine science, custom instruments, and soundscapes in a free live performance at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport this Thursday.

Oregon Coast Community College’s Aquarium Science building is undergoing a $2.3 million renovation, so some 150 animals had to be moved to the Hatfield Marine Science Center and Oregon Coast Aquarium.

Newport's Hatfield Marine Science Center celebrates its new 70-foot blue whale skeleton, one of only five on display in the U.S., a decade after it washed ashore in Oregon.

Local Ocean adopted a 20% service charge during the pandemic, but has decided to return to voluntary tipping.

The Western Flyer, a fishing boat chartered by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts in 1940 for a research expedition, visited the Pacific Northwest this spring, and is now heading home to California.

A decision by the Trump administration to quickly dismantle a complex and massive array of underwater equipment that for 10 years has studied the ocean’s health has stunned and dismayed researchers in Newport and Corvallis.

The whale was likely dead for a couple weeks before it washed ashore south of South Beach State Park near Newport.

The Oregon Health Authority issued a public health advisory Tuesday (June 9) for unsafe levels of fecal bacteria in ocean waters at Nye Beach in Lincoln County.