It has been more than 28 years since Keiko landed with a splash in Oregon. Keiko who, you may ask? Keiko was a male orca captured in the Atlantic Ocean near Iceland in 1979 as a 2-year-old. He was ...

Who wins in a battle of sharks versus orcas? I took my seven-year-old grandson Brendan to find out at Newport’s Oregon Coast Aquarium. It’s a great place for a family getaway in November, an otherwise ...

NEWPORT, Ore. -- The Oregon Coast Aquarium finds itself at the end of a stormy few years that included a financial crunch, a felony conviction for its former director and a decline in attendance.

NEWPORT, Ore. (AP) — The veterinarian at the Oregon Coast Aquarium who cared for the killer whale Keiko (KAY-ko), star of the Free Willy films, has died. Dr. Steven Brown of Newport was 62. Brown was ...

Oregonians may have a special place in their hearts for Keiko, the killer whale that became famous because of the Oregon-filmed movie, “Free Willy,” and who later lived at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, ...

A whale known to many in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest will get the star treatment in a new podcast this month. Serial Productions and the New York Times will release “The Good Whale,” a six-part ...

Keiko leaves on his longest voyage, from Oregon to Iceland | KGW Vault On Sept. 9, 1998, crews loaded up Keiko the orca from his erstwhile home in Newport for a trip to his native waters in Iceland.

Chaplain Chatterton will be officiatingSEASIDE – In January 1996, Tom Chatterton sat mesmerized as he watched Keiko the orca being airlifted to the Oregon Coast Aquarium in Newport. On Friday, ...

EAGLESWOOD, N.J. - One of two men who died in a plane crash in New Jersey was the trainer who prepared Keiko the whale for release into the wild. Stephen Claussen, 41, of Seattle was in New Jersey to ...

For many, Free Willy is the childhood story of a young boy who befriends a killer whale before heroically freeing him into the wild. But the real story behind the 1993 classic doesn’t have quite such ...