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State proposes one-fish May yelloweye bag as rockfish recovery pays offOregon would let sport anglers keep one yelloweye rockfish in May 2027, the first retention since 2002. Written comments are due at 8 a.m. Nov. 11, and the commission votes Dec. 11.
A strong El Niño is building. Here is how it works and what it may mean for OregonNOAA says a strong-to-very strong El Niño is likely through early 2027. Federal outlooks tilt the Pacific Northwest warmer this winter, with odds of extra rain reaching the Oregon coast.
Newport's new research ship Taani slips again, now due in fall 2027Oregon State University now says its new Newport research ship will reach its crew in fall 2027. That is later than the March 2027 date in a May 2026 schedule, and the ship was first due in spring 2023.
- Women in Science Portland, run by volunteers, lines up a busy fall
The nonprofit, founded at Oregon Health & Science University in 2012, has an auction, a stress talk, a bird walk and two happy hours on its calendar.
Tesla's new Roadster hangs upside down and leaps over cars in TexasTesla showed its next-generation Roadster at a SpaceX test site near Waco, with a thruster-powered stunt show and a 2028 production target.
Ocean buoys are back off Newport after a federal pulloutResearch moorings that report wind, waves and ocean conditions off Oregon and Washington went back in the water in early October. More are due next spring.
NASA moves a new far-infrared telescope toward the next design stageThe PRIMA observatory would look at the wavelengths between Webb and radio telescopes, tracing planets, galaxies, black holes and the history of water.
The Oregon shelf may be sending iron to the open PacificLow-oxygen water off Oregon may help carry iron, a nutrient the open Pacific lacks, far beyond the continental shelf.