Oregon Coast

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

Newport officials say the fight isn’t over until Immigration and Customs Enforcement can permanently promise that no detention center is coming to Newport.

The city has to replace rotten pilings along the Astoria Riverfront Trolley line. But the work must be done without harassing the federally protected sea lions living underneath the trestles.