Oregon Coast

For decades, the West Coast Game Park Safari in Bandon attracted visitors traveling along the Oregon coast. That was until local, state and federal agencies raided the business this spring. Court documents and interviews with former employees reveal some of what is alleged to have been going on at this roadside zoo.

An alarming new federal report released Wednesday indicates that the number of gray whales in the Pacific Ocean has dropped to the lowest number in decades and that the decline may be only getting worse.

Beginning July 1, electric-assisted bicycles will be allowed in most areas of Oregon state parks where regular bicycles currently are allowed, and on almost all wet-sand stretches of the state’s 363 miles of ocean beaches.

Anticipating a hot and dry Fourth of July, the Newport city council voted this week to ban personal fireworks this summer.

Advocates for Oregon’s fishing industry say cuts to the federal workforce and global trade tensions could hurt a sector already contending with low domestic demand.

With national policy obviously out of the hands of local and state officials, tourism industry executives and others are now racing to figure out how widespread — and potentially damaging — any dramatic drop off of Canadian visitors could be.

The imminent departure of two Rite Aid pharmacies in Newport and Lincoln City has added some urgency to potential plans by Samaritan Health Services to open its second pharmacy in Lincoln County.

There are over 1,000 tide gates in Oregon, preventing the ocean from flooding valuable agricultural land. Many were installed more than 70 years ago. And now, they're at risk of failure. But replacing them isn't easy.

Six candidates are running for three seats on the Lincoln County School District Board.

Investigators are searching for a person of interest in the stabbing of an elephant seal pup earlier this year along the Oregon Coast.

Thousands of gray whales now migrating north from Baja California are in such poor shape and so few calves were born this winter that researchers and others worry they may be witnessing another die-off.

One week after she was removed as Waldport’s mayor, Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies cited Heide Lambert for disorderly conduct Thursday when she came to a city council meeting and refused to leave the seat normally occupied by the city’s top elected official.