Emotions have gotten heated in isolated, picturesque Pacific County, pop. 22,000, a three-hour drive from Seattle, out there by the coast. As an anonymous leaflet left on car windshields the weekend ...

There’s a growing threat driving the county’s economy toward utter catastrophe. The county’s largest base of employment is on the verge of collapse, putting at risk thousands of family-wage jobs.

Troy Brynelson / OPB During a meeting Wednesday, administrators in Southwest Washington’s Pacific County proposed changing oversight of the jail. The change would take it out of the hands of county ...

PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington Secretary of State’s office is setting the record straight after Pacific County's elections office mistakenly published sample ballot results on their website ...

PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — For more than 122 years, the Chinook Observer has documented happenings in and around Pacific County, Wash., but moving forward the paper’s stories will no longer contain ...

People traveling in both directions of US 101 in Pacific County should plan ahead and use a different route. On Wednesday, May 20, Washington State Department of […] ...

Editor’s note: The video above about the explosion in Pacific County was originally published on Dec. 7, 2021. OCEAN PARK, Wash. - Investigators have identified the cause of a large explosion that ...

ILWACO, Wash. -- The first tornado to strike Pacific County in nearly 30 years was reported on Friday near Ilwaco, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado touched down just after 8 p.m.

SEAVIEW, Wash. — One week after an investigation was launched into alleged misuse of funds at the Pacific County Tourism Bureau, the bureau’s board terminated Katja Spitz as director. A formal ...