Newport

The Dec. 14 re-opening celebration caps a decade-long effort to expand and improve the Newport Performing Arts Center.

Sitting atop a bluff at the mouth of the Yaquina River is a small wooden lighthouse in need of repair. Soon, this piece of Oregon Coast history will undergo restorations meant to last for generations to come.

Fishermen with callused hands and vise-like grips worked steadily along Newport’s docks this week to prepare boats and gear in a final push before the opening of Oregon’s 2024-25 commercial Dungeness crab season.

A second area aquatic center is facing a temporary shutdown.

As Oregon Coast communities are increasingly dominated by tourism, many long-term residents are struggling with housing instability, and homelessness.

A social club turned nonprofit provides support and life-long friendships for women of Newport during times of loneliness and grief.

The final steps in the process for the PacWave project will be taken early this August with the installation of underwater power and data cables.

Some council members fear the amount of work they’re doing for free is preventing parents and people of color from running for office.

Newport said it intends to follow state law - which bars discrimination on the basis of gender identity.

When Oregon State University asked years ago to expand its Hatfield Marine Science Center it made a commitment to develop housing for some of the students, faculty and researchers drawn to the new facility. On Monday, it officially broke ground on a $16.5 million, 77-unit apartment project to do just that.

High schoolers turn the tide on coastal Oregon's seafood workforce in new program

An iconic building in the Nye Beach neighborhood of Newport has a new owner.