Coastal News

By: Cassie Bouska, OSU Extension Agent; Cassie.bouska@oregonstate.edu Are you interested in organic production, but don’t know how to get started? Join us March 5th, 2016 at 9am at the Bandon Library where we w...

Slide repairs on U.S. 101 at milepost 129.3 at Whale Cove continue and have shifted to night work. Work hours are now 7:00 p.m. to 6:00 a.m. Sunday through Thursday, and are scheduled to be completed in early M...

A couple of earthquakes were recorded near Cape Mendocino in Northern California Friday and Saturday. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the largest, a magnitude 3.4 occurred at 4:51 a.m., Saturday mornin...

News release from Newport PD. Newport Police Officers were dispatched to a report of a subject with a gun in the parking lot of Subway Restaurant. The subject reportedly had his finger on the trigger, and was w...

The U.S. Coast Guard Reserve celebrates its 75th anniversary Friday, Feb. 19, 2016, and invites the public to help in acknowledging locally-based reservists throughout February. More than 570 reserves from arou...

Officials with the Port of Astoria on the North Oregon Coast continue to wrestle with a Sea Lion population problem. The large Pennipeds, as they do at most ports along the Oregon Coast, take over Port docks, d...

Florence – ODOT crews will be using a snooper crane on the Siuslaw Bridge Monday, February 22, to replace stainless steel hydraulic line clamps that have corroded on the draw bridge. One lane will be closed fro...

On February 17, 2016 at 12:53 pm Lincoln County Sheriff’s deputies and a Newport Police officer responded to a report of an adult female who was trespassing on Waldport High School property. The investigation r...

The 8th annual Sharing the Coast Conference is coming to Coos Bay March 4-6. The public is invited to share in the wealth of information about coastal science and natural history that the conference provides. T...

A new study on steelhead trout in Oregon offers genetic evidence that wild and hatchery fish are different at the DNA level, and that they can become different with surprising speed. The research, recently publ...