A local program aimed at supporting parents in Coos and Curry Counties will soon be the hub of the South Coast for parents seeking support programs.

Eighth graders from all over Coos County got to take a peek into the future on Tuesday and see how one potential decision could be a life changing one.

Inspired by videos of huge garbage patches in the Pacific Ocean, students at  a local school have been working to collect items that could otherwise end up in the middle of the ocean.

In an attempt to preserve a healthy duck and geese population at Mingus Park, biologists are asking park goers to be careful when feeding birds.

A group of local residents and animal lovers are turning their attention to cutting down the feral cat and dog population through a group called S/Nipped, which stands for Spay and Neuter Intervention Project, People Ending senseless Death.

It's pupping season off the coast and according to the Coos County Sheriff's Office, recent 911 calls show there have been numerous seal pup sightings, so officials are asking people to keep a safe distance for the animals sake.

One of the more popular summer hot spots in the Coos Bay Bureau of Land Management district is getting some much needed TLC this week.

The New Carissa salvage crew may be long gone but connections made during their time on the the South Coast is giving area companies some business.

Truly a day dedicated to kids, hundreds of families headed out to John Topits Park on Saturday as part of Child Abuse Awareness Month.

It was spring cleaning for some Bay Area folks over the weekend and the objective was not to clean their own homes but the homes of others.

The American Red Cross hosts their annual Volunteer Appreciation Lunch Monday afternoon.

As part of a project to designate off-highway vehicle riding areas in the dunes as called for in the 1994 Oregon Dunes National Recreation Management Plan, a working group is getting together this week in an effort to make progress in designating those riding areas.

With a little more than a month until the May 15 Primary Election, political signs are popping up all over the place but ODOT is warning folks that those signs can come down just as easily as they're put up.

There was nothing on the Coos County Commissioners meeting agenda to do with mining agreements with Oregon Resources Corporation, but dozens of people came out to speak for and against on April 6th anyway.

A local couple is proving their families wrong as they celebrate 65 years of marriage this week.