Coastal News

A new assessment of shoreline change along the Pacific Northwest coast from the late 1800s to present found that while the majority of beaches are stable or slightly accreting (adding sand), many Oregon beaches...

An international team of scientists that installed a borehole temperature observatory following the 2011 Tohoku-Oki earthquake in Japan has been able to measure the “frictional heat” generated during the ruptur...

Newport Fire Department was dispatched to a residential structure fire on the 5000 block of Yaquina Bay road last Friday at approximately 4:22 PM. A column of thick black smoke was visible for miles along the B...

While most were thankful over the Thanksgiving Holiday, law enforcement on the South Oregon Coast were “Tankful” following an event near Myer’s Creek in Curry County, Wednesday, Nov. 27.  A resident there recen...

Coast Guard personnel, as part of Operation Safe Crab, are available to conduct voluntary dockside exams prior to the opening of the Dungeness crab fishery in various Oregon and Southwest Washington state ports...

The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is reminding sport and commercial anglers that harvest restrictions at two marine reserve sites, Cape Perpetua and Cascade Head, will take effect Jan. 1, 2014. The new...

The Fish and Wildlife Commission met Friday, Dec. 6, in Portland and completed the following business: •Set harvest specifications and season structure for recreational groundfish and commercial nearshore speci...

Oregon State Police (OSP) and Curry County Sheriff's Office are continuing the investigation into an early Thursday morning incident following a single vehicle traffic crash along Highway 101 near Harbor in Cur...

AT&T has a fiber optics cable facility near Whiskey Run in Coos County. That’s where a cable from the Far East comes ashore in the United States and then spreads across the country linking high-tech data fr...

The first comprehensive genetic study of humpback whale populations in the North Pacific Ocean has identified five distinct populations – at the same time a proposal to designate North Pacific humpbacks as a si...