Florence is once again celebrating the town's strangest claim to fame — the day officials tried to blow up a beached whale and sent blubber raining down on a parking lot. The coastal Oregon town will ...

Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious footnote. About a three-hour drive south from Portland, the coastal city ...

The Eugene Emeralds have announced their Exploding Whale alternate identity. Starting in April, the Emeralds will become the Exploding Whales for four different games (April 22, May 6, May 26, and ...