Oregon Coast

The Oregon Beach Monitoring Program has released its list of coastal recreation areas it will monitor for the presence of bacteria during 2026 and 2027.

Amid an ongoing Department of Homeland Security shutdown and heightened tensions over immigration enforcement, newly confirmed U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Markwayne Mullin stopped in Astoria Wednesday and toured Coast Guard facilities at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Oregon authorities say a dead gray whale washed up on a beach near Florence Thursday morning.

After two summers of paid parking meters at Newport’s Bayfront, the city is expanding the program to Nye Beach starting May 1.

A section of Highway 229 between Kernville and Siletz remains closed after a December landslide. Transportation officials say the area is still dangerous.

A coast guard helicopter crew out of Newport rescued a hiker from a cliff side at God’s Thumb in Lincoln City Saturday.

Restrictions at some Oregon beaches go into effect on March 15 as the nesting season for the threatened western snowy plover begins.

Petitioners seeking to recall Mayor Heide Lambert announced Tuesday they were aborting their effort.

Velella velella, also known as “By-The-Wind-Sailors,” are a colonial hydroid species that look like small blue jellyfish. Every year, they wash up on the coast thanks to strong winter winds.

The Cascade Subduction Zone affects where the ocean meets the land, and that land is rising in some parts of the Oregon Coast.

A prescribed burn is planned for Tuesday in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area near Waxmyrtle Campground.

Coast Guard officer dies from injuries during helicopter rescue mission