Oregon Coast

The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development wants to strengthen protections for Oregon’s marine ecosystem and ensure Oregonians get fair compensation for the use of the seafloor.

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

The Oregon Parks and Recreation Department will close trails at Humbug Mountain and Cape Blanco State Parks for land management projects.

The trail replaces a longtime route that was blocked in 2021 and later became the subject of a Surfrider lawsuit.

Lincoln County’s tortured and tumultuous 10-year path to regulate and limit hundreds of vacation rentals in unincorporated areas may be over.

Echo Mountain Fire survivors find respite in new tiny home village six years after blaze torched their lives

Cascade Head — Oregon’s only UNESCO biosphere reserve — celebrated its 50th anniversary on July 18. The milestone came as more than a dozen other biospheres in the country have folded, following cuts by the Trump administration.

Scores of people are expected to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Oregon's only UNESCO biosphere this weekend near Lincoln City.

The Bonneville Power Administration plans to cut funding that supports salmon hatcheries. A bipartisan group of lawmakers wants the agency to reverse course.

Local Ocean adopted a 20% service charge during the pandemic, but has decided to return to voluntary tipping.

The Western Flyer, a fishing boat chartered by John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts in 1940 for a research expedition, visited the Pacific Northwest this spring, and is now heading home to California.

The Trump administration has reversed course on its effort to shut down a network of ocean research stations in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans.