The Exploding Whale Incident is one of the strangest, most memorable mishaps in American local history. On November 12, 1970, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. on November 9, 1970, officials in Florence, Oregon, decided a 45-foot-long stinky sperm whale needed to go. A whale that dies ...

In an attempt to solve a “whale-sized” problem, Oregon officials blew up a beached whale with dynamite. What followed was chaos, carnage, and airborne blubber ...

As ICE creates new deportation centers, Newport, on the quirky, impossibly beautiful Oregon coast finds itself a battleground in Trump’s war on immigrants. It’s not alone as ICE plans for hosts of ...

The grim task of clearing hundreds of washed-up whale carcasses was under way in New Zealand Tuesday, with the beach closed over fears the bodies will fill with gas and explode as they decompose. The ...