Newport

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.

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.