The Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 4148 to reduce the share of transient lodging tax that must be used for tourism promotion or tourism-related facilities from 70% to 50% and let cities and counties use up to half the proceeds for services.
The U.S Coast Guard has promised to indefinitely return a life-saving rescue helicopter to its facility at Newport’s Municipal Airport, Oregon’s two U.S. senators said Thursday, capping weeks of angst in the town ahead of a dangerous crab fishing season. The U.S. Coast Guard removed the helicopter in late October with no public explanation from […]
NEWPORT— Each year, Local Ocean Seafoods buys 100,000 pounds of fresh whole fish from the fishing vessels across its street along Yaquina Bay. The Newport restaurant opened in 2002 in the town’s historic bayfront. It has become a local staple known for serving locally-caught seafood to tourists visiting Oregon’s Central Coast. But in 2025, the […]
A federal contractor representing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told Oregon officials last week that they are preparing an analysis of an unspecified project that would have significant environmental ramifications for the coastal city of Newport. The Virginia-based environmental services company Solv, LLC on Thursday inquired with the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development […]
A nonprofit group representing fishermen’s loved ones and Lincoln County are suing to return a Coast Guard helicopter to the Newport Airport Facility. The county and the Newport-based nonprofit, the Fishermen’s Wives, on Friday filed a lawsuit in the District of Oregon in Eugene challenging the helicopter’s removal. The search-and-rescue helicopter has helped Oregon’s central […]
NEWPORT (AP) — A former Hood River woman accused of throwing her 6-year-old autistic son to his death off a bridge on the Oregon coast last November has pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
