New sales and lodging tax collection figures brought mostly welcome news for the Long Beach Peninsula’s two cities, which are ...

OLYMPIA — Pacific County Sheriff Daniel Garcia is safe from being ejected from office after almost two months of speculation ...

Brilliant, yellow daffodils, pink rhododendrons, camelias and skunk cabbage are all making their presence known and are ...

Caller phoned 9-1-1 to report witnessing a hit and run of an unoccupied vehicle in a parking lot. The striking vehicle was a gray Ford Super Duty […] ...

Indigent defense costs continue to hamper counties across Washington state, and Pacific County’s burden sees no end. Annually the county only receives pennies to the dollar of what is needed […] ...

I have to start in the middle of the story. But I don’t really have words for what happened to me last week. I looked into ...

Being away from home allows one to size home up, to experience anew the advantages or disadvantages of where one lives. I think this fresh look requires a distancing of […] ...

This story has been updated to reflect corrections issued by Oregon State Police. COLUMBIA COUNTY — A Kalama man died in a collision on Oregon Highway 30 last week that […] ...

Throughout its “geologically young” 4,500- to 5,000-year history, Willapa Bay has endured many dynamic changes to its ...

I have been birding my patch a lot lately. My patch is the Long Beach Peninsula and what a place it is. Ilwaco was the focus one day last week. The harbor is an excellent spot for birds. One can ...

Scott Bayer narrowed his gaze as he slowly dragged the brush of black anti-fouling paint along the waterline of the 38-foot ...

Librarians are my favorite people. They are underpaid, underappreciated and under attack by book-banners and other mouth-breathing enemies of the First Amendment. We desperately need librarians on the ...