Depoe Bay News

To the whales passing by, the Oregon coast is probably just a pit stop for a few million bites of phytoplankton on the way to the Bering Sea.

About seven miles south of the tourist resort town of Newport, a major media uproar began on Sunday and ended early Thursday morning.

Inn at Cannon Beach. Beautifully wooded natural setting at quiet south end of Cannon Beach.

Barry Pelzner's oil crayon on board representation of Sauvie Island at Froelick Gallery.

Prices drop at Old Europe Inn Old Europe Inn owner and chef Hans Afshar has reduced the prices of select menu items to about 1987 rates.

It's now officially summer on the Oregon coast. And what a big bang it's starting off with.

Last week's wild run of low tide events and this week's stunning weather seem to have made a surge in visitors, but it may only have made tourism numbers even with last year at this time.

Owner Shae Palmer stands in front of the coffee bar in the new Pirate Coffee Company on Main Street.

Low tides are attracting crowds to Oregon's coast this week, including a woman who was injured trying to see the boiler from a 1910 shipwreck.

Oregon's new marine reserves won't by themselves restore depleted fish populations or revive the coastal economy, but they are an important and overdue first step.

Some before too long, someone will write a history of the Pacific Coast - not the land side, but the water.

Depoe Bay, Oregon is a cozy town in between Lincoln City and Newport that was incorporated in 1973.

A burglary suspect went door-to-door asking people where he could buy methamphetamine just four blocks away from where a homeowner caught him in the act of robbing a house, according to police in this Oregon Coast community.

The Oregon House unanimously passed a bill Thursday that funds the state's first two fishing-free marine reserves and sets a schedule for studying four others.

Oregon coast near Depoe Bay Salem-News.com photo by Tim King - The Oregon House of Representatives approved HB-3013 A on Thursday, outlining a detailed plan and timeline to complete evaluation of six potential marine reserve sites recommended by the Governor's Ocean Policy Advisory Council.

The tide was so low Wednesday that, in addition to gaining access to areas normally under water, people could easily reach the boiler for which Boiler Bay, just north of Depoe Bay, was named.

Dale and Sandy Lange of 12 2nd Ave. N.W., Choteau, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary at a beach house at Depoe Bay, Ore.

The weather reports say it's going to be warm, but what is typically one of the busiest weekends of the whole year on the Oregon coast wasn't looking so hot earlier this week.

As of May 1, saltwater sport fishers will be able to put one more groundfish in the marine fish daily bag - the highest bag limit since summer of 2005.

Come by the coast to get a look at the mama gray whales and babies making their way north from Mexico, and you just might be rewarded with a rarer sight -- orcas.