Florence, Oregon, is famous for an exploding whale, but the town has much more to offer. It sits near the Oregon Dunes ...

Thin, battered gray whales have been turning up dead on Oregon beaches since late 2025, and the strandings have not stopped. At least several carcasses found along the central and southern coast this ...

Courtesy of Tiffany Boothe / Seaside Aquarium Last Tuesday, a 40-foot gray whale floated ashore on Seaside Beach, its long tail bobbing in the ocean waves. A necropsy on Friday revealed the whale was ...

Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious ...