Oregon State Parks will host Spring Whale Watch Week along the Oregon Coast from Saturday, March 22 through Sunday, March 30.

It is also a great spot for gray whale viewing. The Yaquina Head Lighthouse is one of the most popular attractions on the Oregon Coast, and it’s a must-see while you’re in Newport. This ...

Oregon’s commercial Dungeness crab fishery is under increasing pressure to address whale entanglements after a record-breaking four incidents in 2024, including one as recently as January 6th.

A recent boom in the purple sea urchin population off the southern Oregon Coast appears to have ... extend indirectly to a top predator, the gray whale, and it affects them in a negative way." ...

PORTLAND, Ore.— Conservation groups filed a formal notice of their intent to sue the Federal Emergency Management Agency over its failure to protect floodplain-dependent imperiled salmonids and orcas ...

The lab, established in 2019, is based at the Hatfield Marine Science Center in Newport ... Oregon State . They include the bee plate, which launched in 2023, and the gray whale plate, which ...

A series of earthquakes has rattled the Pacific Northwest in recent weeks, raising concerns. A local expert says it's nothing ...