NEWPORT, Ore. -- The Oregon Coast Aquarium finds itself at the end of a stormy few years that included a financial crunch, a felony conviction for its former director and a decline in attendance.

Who wins in a battle of sharks versus orcas? I took my seven-year-old grandson Brendan to find out at Newport’s Oregon Coast Aquarium. It’s a great place for a family getaway in November, an otherwise ...

Chaplain Chatterton will be officiatingSEASIDE – In January 1996, Tom Chatterton sat mesmerized as he watched Keiko the orca being airlifted to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. On Friday, ...

IN THE WAKE OF A WHALE By Katy Muldoon The Oregonian Sunday,December 14, 2003 Stephen Claussen zipped on a wet suit, strapped on a scuba tank and jumped in. The Newport night was so clear, he ...

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — The veterinarian at the Oregon Coast Aquarium who cared for the killer whale Keiko (KAY-ko), star of the Free Willy films, has died. Dr. Steven Brown of Newport was 62. Brown was ...

Nearly 700 people, some wiping away tears, turned out to bid farewell to Keiko, the killer whale who starred in the popular “Free Willy” movies, and died overseas in December. The crowd gathered ...

NEWPORT, Ore. — Nearly 700 people, some wiping away tears, turned out to bid farewell to Keiko, the killer whale who starred in the popular Free Willy movies and died overseas in December. The crowd ...

A whale known to many in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest will get the star treatment in a new podcast this month. Serial Productions and the New York Times will release “The Good Whale,” a six-part ...

EAGLESWOOD, N.J. - One of two men who died in a plane crash in New Jersey was the trainer who prepared Keiko the whale for release into the wild. Stephen Claussen, 41, of Seattle was in New Jersey to ...