Oregon Coast

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.

Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration.

A decision by the Trump administration to quickly dismantle a complex and massive array of underwater equipment that for 10 years has studied the ocean’s health has stunned and dismayed researchers in Newport and Corvallis.

Just in time for summer, there is a newly updated Oregon Coast Bike Route map.

Last September, the National Science Foundation removed two of its three floating observation stations off Newport, Oregon, and all three of its stations off Grays Harbor, Washington, from the water and warehoused them in Corvallis, Oregon.

A bipartisan group of Oregon lawmakers is asking state environmental regulators to pump the brakes on enforcing a set of civil fines against Pacific Seafood while the company appeals.

The Oregon Coast Humane Society said it confirmed two separate incidents of parvo in the Florence area and is urging local and visiting dog owners to take precautions.

The city of Newport helped fend off an effort by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to land Oregon’s first and only immigration detention center at its airport.

The nesting-season closures are among the reasons why the birds have reached their target population number along the west coast.

The iconic roadway is celebrating a milestone this year: the 100th anniversary of its designation as a federal highway.