Coastal News

A beachcomber found the remains of a man’s body in a driftwood pile south of Port Orford in Curry Co. Wednesday, March 23. According to the Curry Co. Sheriff’s Office, the body had been at the location for quit...

The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended its search for an airplane that went down near the mouth of the Columbia River Wednesday. Pilot John McKibbin was helping a woman spread her husband’s ashes when the wreck occ...

Coast Guard personnel with the 13th District command, control, communications, and computer branch tested an array of emergency communications equipment during an exercise simulating a natural disaster and comp...

A couple of tropical sea turtles, stranded in the cold waters of the Pacific Northwest when their warm northerly ocean current ran out, are getting healthier during rehabilitation on the Central Oregon Coast an...

The Coast Guard rescued four people from an overturned boat near the entrance to Yaquina Bay in Newport, Saturday morning, March 19. A 47-foot Motor Lifeboat crew from Coast Guard Station Yaquina Bay, pulled th...

A 5.2-magnitude earthquake shook the northern end of two fault lines that run parallel with the Oregon Coast Friday, March 18, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The quake was recorded at 3:46 p.m. and wa...

News release from the Lincoln Co. Sheriff's Office. On March 17, 2016, at approximately 3:50 PM Lincoln County Sheriff's Office Deputy's, Jeremy Gautney and K9 Bonni, were called to assist the Toledo Police Dep...

News release from the Lincoln Co. Sheriff's Office. On the evening of February 27, 2016, Deputy Eric Larson with the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office conducted a traffic stop in Waldport after observing the vehi...

Oregon Parks and Recreation Department (OPRD) will host its spring Whale Watch Week March 19-26 at 24 designated whale watching sites along the coast. Trained volunteers from the Whale Watching Spoken Here prog...

The Oregon Salmon Commission will hold its annual budget meeting on Tuesday, March 29, 2016 in Newport, Oregon. In preparation for this meeting, the commission budget committee will have a special meeting confe...