Oregon Coast

Rotted timbers closed the rail line for a week. The railroad's general manager says more are in bad shape.

The repayment will increase Bay Area Hospital’s fiscal 2026 loss from about $6 million to $9 million, officials told its board.

The state has only one of at least 15 vertical evacuation structures needed to prepare the coast, officials say.

A species once declared overfished has rebounded, and its return to the docks will give scientists their first good look at the fish in decades.

A typical residential customer will pay about $15 more a month as higher wholesale power and operating costs push Coos-Curry Electric rates higher.

The first large site in the continental U.S. for testing technologies that generate electricity from ocean waves is now open after securing a key green-energy approval from the Trump administration.

A new state report says tariffs have hurt Oregon’s economy, but seafood processors on the South Coast say the latest trade fight is part of a much older struggle to reach foreign markets.

The temporary court order includes nighttime restrictions, area closures and a pause on new event permits while the Forest Service conducts further environmental review.

Scientists have begun to re-deploy ocean monitoring equipment removed from Pacific Northwest waters by the Trump administration in September.

The races will hinge heavily upon earning support from non-affiliated voters, the region’s largest electorate and a group with a history of electing moderate politicians known for taking atypical stances — sometimes against their own party.

An environmental group has sued the Trump administration over its failure to grant Endangered Species Act protections to sunflower sea stars, a keystone Pacific Ocean species that lost 90% of its population since 2013 to a wasting disease.

Bipartisan group of state and federal lawmakers pushed back against federal plan to dismantle its Ocean Observatories Initiative system