Newport Fishermen's Wives

When U.S. Department of Justice attorneys appear in federal court Monday in Eugene, they will argue that Newport Fishermen’s Wives, Lincoln County and the state of Oregon shouldn’t be allowed to interfere in routine and temporary operations as to when, where and how the Coast Guard deploys its rescue helicopters.

Local governments in Oregon have struggled with the extent to which they should resist or comply with increasingly aggressive federal immigration policy, but one town took a different approach.

On Sunday, hundreds of Newport residents told Oregon Senator Ron Wyden they want a Coast Guard helicopter returned, and an ICE detention center halted.

Newport residents unite after the Coast Guard helicopter vanishes and ICE detention rumors grow, raising safety fears for crabbers and immigrant families.

Commissioners say they will take part in efforts to return the rescue helicopter to a Coast Guard facility at Newport Municipal Airport

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

Oregon’s commercial Dungeness Crab season is a little topsy-turvy, so far.The good news is, the market price for crab is up since a deal was reached…

The U.S. Coast Guard is officially investigating the deaths of three crab fishermen near Newport last week . KLCC’s Brian Bull reports.On January 9th,…

A coastal women’s group based in Newport is hopeful President Trump will not cut money from the United States Coast Guard. As KLCC’s Brian Bull reports,…

The Newport Air Station on the Oregon coast has been saved for at least the next two years.After some back and forth between the House and the Senate,…

Federal Judge Michael McShane is “on the fence” whether to stay a lawsuit brought by the Newport Fishermen’s Wives against the Coast Guard, or dismiss it.…

Congress gave Newport’s Coast Guard air station a one-year reprieve after a threatened December closure. The community still fears they’ll lose their…