Newport News

Authorities are saying that a tornado whipped through the coastal town of Lincoln City Friday night around 9 p.m. The severe weather tore roofs off vacation cottages and shattered windows on at least one parked car.

A Newport man remains in critical condition after a serious collision Wednesday evening with what Newport Police say was an intoxicated wrongway driver without headlights.

A man with fractured legs, arm and pelvis was taken to a Portland hospital by air ambulance Wednesday evening after an intoxicated wrongway driver with her headlights off crashed head-on into his car on Highway 101, according to police.

A crash has closed the coastal Highway 101 near Newport, officials said tonight.

The 65-foot wooden fishing vessel, Helen McColl, sank while moored at Port Dock Five.

The big Halloween celebration at Oregon Coast Aquarium is the kickoff to the facility's newest exhibit of Turkey Vultures.

Image is an artist's rendition of a ghost with the Oregon coast as the backdrop Story Published: Oct 30, 2009 at 5:25 AM PDT OREGON COAST It's a place as full of atmosphere and mystery as it is pristine.

Brandon Keeting shows off some of the beets he harvested this week from the garden.

Former Portland music icon Craig Carothers will return to the central Oregon coast and this time he is bringing his friend, Grammy-award winner Don Henry.

Geologists have uncovered the source of an unusual swarm of undersea earthquakes that struck the Oregon coast last spring.

The lens inside the Cape Blanco lighthouse, built in Paris in 1935 by Henry LePaute and still in use.

Rather than lolling around Salem on Friday, perhaps you'll want to head out to Newport for an evening of scary karaoke and new friends.

State officials have set up three meetings next week to take public comments on draft rules to set up, study, monitor and evaluate pilot marine reserves.

Monday marked the 47 year anniversary of the most devastating storm to strike the Pacific Northwest in the 20th Century.

'Tis the season for the spooky, so it's in that spirit that two lectures on creepy tales and oddities of the Oregon coast will be given one in Newport and the other in SW Portland.

One man is in critical condition following a shooting this weekend at Newport's Port Dock 7, according to Todd Sarazin of the Newport police.

Members of Washington state's congressional delegation are asking Commerce Secretary Gary Locke to re-examine the decision to move a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration base from Seattle to Newport, Ore.

Due to my surgically repaired but still arthritic right knee, my beer sampling activities were a bit curtailed this past week.

Oregon Man Cited for Possession of Great White Shark caught in August. Great White Shark Caught August 8, 2009 and landed in Depoe Bay.

Dungeness crabs washed ashore at Cape Perpetua as the ocean off Oregon experienced "dead zone" conditions in the summer of 2004.