The U.S. Coast Guard has vowed to keep its rescue helicopter in Newport, U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden said Thursday, following a court order to return the aircraft to the coastal Oregon city.

“Some great news: I just got off the phone with the U.S. Coast Guard, who has returned the rescue helicopter to Newport and promised to keep it there,” Wyden said on social media.

The announcement comes after Lincoln County and the Newport Fishermen’s Wives, a nonprofit that supports those in the commercial fishing industry, sued the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the Coast Guard in federal court last month after learning the Coast Guard had either ceased or drastically reduced its operations in Newport and moved the helicopter some 70 miles south to North Bend.

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