Oregon-based seafood company Pacific Seafood has officially merged with Ocean Beauty Seafoods. The transaction closed on July 13. According to an official statement, the merger will help meet an ...

Columbia Memorial Hospital will host the Regatta Square Block Party during the 2026 Astoria Regatta festival. According to a press release from CMH, the block party will be held in the public parking ...

Early in the morning on Tuesday, July 21, the U.S. Coast Guard responded to the collision of two fishing vessels 22 miles off the coast of Grays Harbor, Washington. No injuries were reported. The F/V ...

“After leaving the Rialto, I and a Swede went up the country in New South Wales… with our blankets made up in the form of what they call in Australia a ‘swag’…” A few weeks ago, I wrote about the ...

Another tournament, another triumph for local baseball players. The Mafia Baseball Club, a Pacific Northwest team, won their ticket to play in the Babe Ruth World Series. On July 13-17, the Mafia ...

It was North Coast Paddling Club vs North Coast Paddling Club at the 3rd Annual Dragon Boat Festival in Budd Inlet in Olympia, Washington Saturday, July 11. And not surprisingly, North Coast Paddling ...

Johnny Jim Chapman, 32, of Yakima, Washington, was arraigned Monday on charges of unlawful sexual penetration in the first degree, strangulation, assault in the fourth degree, harassment and two ...

The Warner Bros. film “Free Willy” (1993) used several local locations on the North Coast when they were filming in 1992: A house on Harrison Avenue and at the foot of 14th Street in Astoria, Ecola ...

Cannon Beach City Hall is so back … or will be at 8 a.m. on July 27. The offices at City Hall closed July 22 to 24 so everyone can move out of the trailers and into the new and improved building at ...

Columbia River Estuary Study Taskforce (CREST) Council, noon, via Zoom. To receive a link to the meeting, please send a request to mflaitz@columbiaestuary.org. Clatsop Community College Board of ...

In regard to the letter titled “Congratulations on delivering a great IDEA” by Tony and Ann Kischner from July 20: I just wanted to thank the Kischners for their kind letter to the editor validating ...

After seven years of living in a cramped two-bedroom apartment in Northeast Portland with her four sons, Ja’Nelle Samuels assumed homeownership was impossible. The 43-year-old single mom and nonprofit ...