Newport

Consolidation in the fish processing industry has left Newport with just one major seafood processing facility.

Billows of smoke enveloped Newport’s popular Bayfront for much of Sunday as dozens of firefighters from as far away as Corvallis battled a stubborn blaze and potential ammonia leak at a Pacific Seafood plant.

Newport and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Friday settled the city’s lawsuit that sought to keep a planned federal immigration detention center out of the municipal airport after 10 months of legal fights and more than $368,000 in attorney fees.

City councilor Sandy Roumagoux challenges incumbent Jan Kaplan in Newport's first contested mayoral race since 2020, focusing on infrastructure and leadership styles.

The city of Newport wants to settle its lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but the federal government keeps dragging its feet.

About 150 people crowded the Performing Arts Center on Tuesday evening to listen to Newport’s first state of the city presentation.

The American Cetacean Society Oregon Chapter hosts a Whale Watch Naturalist training in Newport this October. The $250 program requires no prior experience.

Scientists at a landmark symposium on Sept. 9 and 10 at Newport's Hatfield Marine Science Center warn that warming Bering Sea waters and declining food supplies threaten gray whale recovery, signaling broader Arctic changes.

The projected January opening of a Samaritan Health Services retail pharmacy in Newport will be a welcome development in a community left with fewer options after major pharmacy closures in 2025 and 2026.

As many questions as answers floated around the Hatfield Marine Science Center this week as researchers drawn from thousands of miles pondered the perilous fate of the Pacific gray whale.

Newport Public Library cardholders now have free access to stream movies, documentaries, and classic cinema on Kanopy with a valid library card.

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