Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oregon is known nationally for its trees and outdoor recreation, but what about the exploding whale? In November 1970, a dead ...

Television reporter Paul Linnman in Portland, Ore., was on the scene 35 years ago when authorities attempted to blow up a dead whale on the beach with dynamite, creating a blubber shower. Sometimes ...

PORTLAND, Ore — On Nov. 9, 1970, a 45-foot sperm whale had washed up on the beach near Florence, but as KATU reporter Paul Linnman noted at the time, it later became "a stinking whale of a ...

Nothing says "let nature take its course" quite so poorly as a bundle of dynamite. It is the 51st anniversary of the infamous detonation of dynamite near a stinking whale carcass on a beach near ...