Fewer people flock to the coast during the winter months. Instead, we are gifted with increased numbers of wintering waterfowl.

The Cape Perpetua Young Scientist and Wave Makers Webinars are a variety of online educational presentations hosted by the Cape Perpetua Collaborative that will be held monthly through April.

Throughout 2023, Oregon Coast Council for the Arts and the Newport Visual Arts Center are inviting people on an artistic journey to intriguing new creative destinations.

During a recent visit to the Whale Watching Center in Depoe Bay to learn more about the upcoming winter Whale Watch Week, Wednesday, Dec. 28 through Sunday, Jan.1, I overheard this conversation:

If the ice bucket challenge didn’t do it for you, the growing trend of plunging your entire body in frigid water might also not be your cup of iced tea.
But for regular practitioners, it’s a not-to-be missed way to start the new year.

This New Year’s Eve, Lincoln City’s Chinook Winds Casino Resort is rustlin’ up some fun to ring in 2023, with a “Country optional” theme that you can join in with or leave in the pasture.

Every year on New Year's Day, the Oregon State Parks Department encourages people to explore all the beauty the state has to offer with First Day Hikes.

The trail’s beauty belies the grim story of its namesake. The pine needle carpet is soft on a winter’s day and switchbacks offer panoramas of dense Sitka forest, the majestic Cape Perpetua and the jagged contours of the Oregon Coast.

Through workshops, residencies and events, the Sitka Center provides time and space for place-based reflection, inquiry and creation at the intersection of art and ecology.

The New Year’s Eve dance at the Lincoln City Cultural Center will be musical director John Bringetto’s final time at the helm of the Lincoln Pops Orchestra.

It was Christmas Eve, 1893. Henry Ford, with the help of his wife Clara, tested his first gasoline engine.

The new series of classes at the Artists’ Studio Association in Lincoln City runs the gamut from assemblage art to portraits to mosaic.

Visitors come from far and wide to marvel at the beauty of Oregon tides. Sometimes they gently lap at the shoreline, offering a mesmerizing washing of the ever-changing sands.

Museums are treasure troves that, like icebergs, display only a small part of what’s stored below, especially when it comes to the photo and documents archives.

View some real statement pieces at “Creative Wearables,” a new exhibit by a subgroup of fiber artists from the Portland-based Columbia Fiber Arts Guild, now on show at the Lincoln City Cultural Center’s Fiber Arts Studio and Gallery.

There is something so civilized and comforting about a cup of tea. I am a long-time tea drinker and couldn’t possibly start my day without a steaming mug of it.

Do you know someone in the Tillamook area who loves to garden? Or someone who would like to learn how to garden so they can grow and preserve their own food or landscape around their home?

Look closely at the decorations and gifts on and around the six-foot tall holiday tree at Jillian’s Hair Salon in Lincoln City, and you’ll notice they are not the usual fare.

Your guide to the notable lights displays and neighborhoods this holiday season.

Two artists with wildly different backgrounds and techniques but equally impressive talent and imagination will share collaborative and solo efforts in the next exhibit at Lincoln City’s Chessman Gallery.