Oregon Coast

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.

The Heceta Head Lighthouse, long the brightest beacon on the Oregon coast, has gone dark, due to needed repairs to the complex gears that help rotate its antique lamp works.

The so-called King tides that dash against Oregon’s coastline every winter may grab all the headlines, but an upcoming series of extremely low tides promise to reveal some magic of their own.

Stops are planned for Charleston and Coos Bay from through Wednesday, May 13, and in Newport from May 15-22, with free tours, student field trips and educational presentations.

The owner of a roadside zoo in Coos County has pleaded guilty to dozens of charges after police raided his business last year.

Gray whales aren’t getting enough to eat to survive their long migration toward Alaska.

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.