Coastal News

WHERE: Lower Umpqua Hospital Conference Room (next to the dining room); WHEN: Tuesday, February 25, 2014; 4:00pm – 6:00pm - 4:00-4:30pm Know Your Numbers screening, biometrics (ht, wt, BMI, BP); 4:30-5:15pm Car...

Newport Fire Department was dispatched to a reported fuel station pump on fire this evening at 6:35 PM. The fire was reported to be at a fuel station on the corner of NE 3rd and Harney. Initial reports stated t...

Newport Police Officers were dispatched to the Elizabeth Street Inn on a report of an armed robbery that had just occurred. Further investigation revealed a single suspect had entered the business armed with a ...

One fisherman drowned and six others were lucky Saturday, Feb. 22, on the Chetco River east of Brookings. Brookings resident 67-year old Paul Graham drowned when his flat bottom drift boat capsized in the area ...

After stowing away their albacore gear for the 2013 season, Oregon commercial albacore fishermen were pleased to learn that this season ranked the second highest in value to the fleet. Preliminary reports from ...

An investigation by the Lincoln Interagency Narcotics Team (LINT) led to the arrest Thursday of a Newport-area man on charges related to discovery of an unlawful drug lab inside a garage.  On February 20, 2014,...

A magnitude 2.6 earthquake shook an area near Cape Mendocino in Northern California Sunday, Feb. 23, where two fault lines enter the Pacific Ocean from California and then head north to run parallel with the Or...

It wasn’t what Captain Phil Westrick expected to pull up with one of his commercial crab pots Friday, Feb. 21 near Westport, WA. “The Ultimate” was crabbing about two-miles offshore when a human skull came up i...

On February 19, 2014, at about 2:40 AM, Lincoln County Sheriff's Deputies on patrol noticed a suspicious vehicle in the area of Governor Patterson State Park in Waldport. The deputies stopped the vehicle and co...

On 02/18/2014 at 5:45 p.m., the Newport Police Department, Lincoln Interagency Narcotics Team (LINT), and the US Marshal’s Service arrested Sonny Cain, age 25 of Lemon Cove, California, on an outstanding Homici...