On a guided fishing trip in late February, Dustin Kriebel rowed an 18-foot ClackaCraft drift boat through the Wilson River southeast of Tillamook Bay.

Students of art and design Lincoln City’s Taft High School will take center stage at the Chessman Gallery with an exhibit of unique portraits opening this Friday, March 12.

It took millions of years for the land we now call Cape Perpetua to be pushed up out of the sea and carved by wind, water and time. For thousands of years, it was home to short- and long-term indigenous residents who lived lightly on the land.

In building their business, Beachcrest Brewing Company owners Matt and Amy White have combined discipline with a talent for improvisation honed by years of practice.

Spring is right around the corner, and extra items on the beach left by winter storms and beach visitors who didn’t practice pack-in-pack-out behavior mean beach cleanups will be extra fruitful. 

Tempera, watercolor and ceramics artist Steve Rutherford is featured this month at the Artists’ Studio Association’s Beachstone Gallery in Lincoln City.

We got lucky with a beautiful, sunny day. Playing outside on the Central Oregon Coast in February can often end up with pretty soggy results. The goal was to try one activity each from hikebikepaddle.org, a website that makes it easy to find fun places to play near Waldport, Seal Rock and Yachats.

The sea has been the backdrop of every phase of my life.

As we near the first anniversary under a global pandemic, Chinook Winds Resort Casino has answered many of our prayers with the event that has provided laughs for many years. Comedy on the Coast returns on Friday and Saturday, March 5 and 6, with precautions put in place to keep guests safe.

Newport Symphony Orchestra harpist Martha Griffith will pluck the final string of the current Musician’s Living Room series on Friday, March 12, with “The Seductive Sound of the Harp.”

First Weekend returns to Toledo this Saturday and Sunday, March 6 and 7, showcasing the uniqueness of the small mill town and its vibrant arts community. This event, held the first weekend of every month, gives artists and visitors a chance to connect through a personal approach to art. 

The jury is in with the verdict on the nine artists selected for the 2021 Mayor’s Show, opening this Saturday, March 6, at the Newport Visual Arts Center.

Over the past 50 years, the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology has given creative people the time and space to focus on their work in the unique environment of Cascade Head and the Salmon River estuary.

Even if you’ve managed to make it this far without using Zoom, you might not be out of the woods yet.

There are many places to immerse yourself in nature along the rugged Tillamook Coast, but the unspoiled beauty of Netarts, a small community nestled along a bay that produces a great deal of the area’s renowned seafood, provides an especially serene escape during the shoulder seasons of early spring and late fall.

Enjoy an intimate evening with a far-ranging photographer, when the Yaquina Art Association Photographers presents “Shooting Nature and Landscapes,” with Noppadol Paothong, via Zoom, at 7 pm on Monday, March 1.

The Latimer Quilt and Textile Center in Tillamook is helping celebrate 100 years of American women winning the right to vote with a special display, “The Suffrage Quilts,” presented by the Oregon Coastal Quilters Guild.

Tillamook Bay is the second-largest bay on the Oregon Coast, enclosing almost 600-square-miles of a watershed that include five contributing rivers.

It's a dream so many have but so few realize. Having the time to produce something creative, in a place that fosters said creativity.

“Phantom Galleries” are set to appear along Toledo’s Main Street and Arts Revitalization of Toledo, or Toledo ART, is accepting applications from local and regional artists interested in displaying their works.