Coastal News

The traditional Dec. 1 opening of the commercial Dungeness crab season along the entire Oregon coast will be delayed due to concerns about domoic acid levels in some areas. During recent testing, domoic acid in...

News release Newport PD.  On September 6, 2016, Newport Police Officer Humphreys began to conduct an investigation of a residential burglary that was believed to have occurred on September 1, 2016. Through the ...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife are opening the north and central coast to all mussel harvesting from Heceta Head, north of Florence, to the Columbia River. S...

News release Newport PD.  On Wednesday, November 16, 2016, at 1:30 a.m., Newport Police Officers received a report of that a 2002 Jeep Cherokee had just been stolen from a residence at 655 S.W. 9th Street. Serg...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife announced the immediate closure of recreational and commercial bay crabbing from Tillamook Head to the California border due t...

Industrial Harbor USA, LLC has purchased the former International Paper Mill site in Gardiner for an undisclosed amount of money.  The Tacoma, WA based company completed the purchase of the 427-acre property on...

A Coast Guard Sector Columbia River aircrew, aboard an MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter, medevaced a logger who was injured 25 miles east of Tillamook, Wednesday. The aircrew assisted a Yamhill County rescue team who t...

Oregon State University will host an informational meeting and open house on Thursday, Nov. 17, to present the schedule and design process for the interior of the new Marine Studies Building in Newport. The bui...

Officials with the Oregon Department of Agriculture have been testing Oregon’s Dungeness Crabs at five different sites off the Coast in preparation for the upcoming commercial season.  Inspectors found the crab...

The access road to the south trailhead of the Neah-Kah-Nie Mountain Trail, a popular hiking trail at the south end of Oswald West State Park, will be closed periodically for construction until Nov. 23. A contra...