Coastal News

Two Maine surfboard makers, on a West Coast tour to display and promote their wooden boards, and to catch some waves, lost one of their boards off the Central Oregon Coast when a shark bit in to it at Gleneden ...

A 5.5-magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean seafloor west of Brookings Saturday, Nov. 30.  According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake, located within two fault lines that run parallel with the Or...

The Oregon Department of Agriculture and the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife are reopening a portion of the south coast to recreational and commercial mussel harvesting, from Cape Arago to the California...

A 4.3-magnitude earthquake shook the Pacific Ocean sea floor off the Oregon Coast early Tuesday morning, Nov. 26.  According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the quake was within one of the two fault lines that r...

Water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink. That is the problem plaguing the Bureau of Land Management’s water system at the Loon Lake Recreation Area, as the wells supplying the campground with potable w...

The opening of the ocean commercial Dungeness crab season in Oregon will be delayed through at least Dec. 15, fishery managers announced Friday, Nov. 22.  The commercial Dungeness crab season along the Oregon c...

The Oregon Health Authority has lifted a health advisory issued Aug. 1 for Devils Lake, located near Lincoln City on the Central Oregon Coast. High levels of blue-green algae and associated toxins in the lake p...

The Oregon State Parks and Recreation Commission voted to give two property projects a preliminary green light at its business meeting Wednesday, November 20 in Corvallis, Oregon and asked staff to return to a ...

The Commercial Dungeness Crab season is getting close.  The season normally opens December 1st, and runs into mid-August of next year.  However, the bulk of the landings occur during the months of December and ...

A magnitude 3.4 earthquake shook land near Cape Mendocino in Northern California Wednesday, Nov. 20, where two fault lines enter the Pacific Ocean and turn north to run parallel with the Oregon Coast.  Accordin...