Coastal News

The Columbia River flows for over 1200 miles, born free in the cradle of the Rocky Mountains in British Columbia. From its humble beginnings from a tiny spring you can straddle, to a two mile wide confluence wi...

Historians with the Oregon Department of Transportation will host an open house on Wednesday, January 11, to discuss historic Scottsburg and its steel bridge with the local community. The drop-in open house is ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has fined Pacific Sea Food Company Inc., doing business as Pacific Shrimp Company, $1,540 for violating its discharge permit at its facility off Bay Boulevard. The...

A 3.3 magnitude earthquake shook the southern end of two fault lines that begin in Northern California and then run parallel with the Oregon Coast, Tuesday.  According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake w...

The Coast Guard and a good Samaritan commercial fishing crew rescued five people from the water after the fishing vessel Star King, a 55-foot stern trawler homeported in Astoria, capsized and sank near the entr...

The upper end of the Cascadia Subduction Zone in the Pacific Ocean shook Friday night, Jan. 6, where two fault lines that run parallel with the Oregon Coast come together off Canada.  According to the U.S. Geol...

The six-day commercial Dungeness Crab strike is over.  Following negotiations between processors, fisherman and state officials Thursday, an opening price of $2.875 was settled upon sending boats from Brookings...

On Saturday, January 7 from 10-11am Discover the motion of the ocean with your little ones, ages 1 to 5. Toddlers and their families can join us to learn all about the ocean community through song, movement and...

A 3.2-magnitude earthquake occurred in the outer fault line of two that run parallel with the Oregon Coast early Friday morning.  According to the U.S. Geological Survey the quake was located west of Port Orfor...

Lincoln County, in partnership with the State Marine Board, will be hosting a public meeting on January 5, 2017, from 4 to 6 pm at the Waldport City Hall’s Council Chambers, 125 NW Alsea Hwy.  The purpose of th...