Oregon Coast

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.

The federal government looked at Coos County as a possible spot for an immigrant detention center but the idea appears to have stalled for now after a wave of public consternation.

Scientists know a surprising amount of information about Southern Resident Killer Whales, but once the whales leave their home waters of Puget Sound, their whereabouts become a little more murky, especially off the Oregon coast.

A land-ownership change this year prompted new owners to post “No Trespassing” signs blocking a critical, one-mile stretch of the trail five miles inland from its Ona Beach terminus north of Seal Rock.

Commercial Dungeness Crab season opens Dec. 31 Oregon's north coast

Volunteers with Oregon State Parks will fan out along the coast from Dec. 27 to Dec. 31 to help people see gray whales swimming past Oregon.

The lawsuit came the same day a federal judge issued a temporary injunction stopping efforts to relocate a U.S. Coast Guard rescue helicopter.

Opponents of Waldport’s mayor have been given the green light to gather signatures to try to force her out of office.

Oregon’s two senators and the congresswomen representing Lincoln County got a letter of reassurance Friday from the U.S. Coast Guard’s commandant that he intends to permanently keep its rescue helicopter in Newport.

Commercial Dungeness crabbing boats in Oregon have a three day window to set their traps before they can begin their harvest at 9:00 a.m. on Dec. 16