In honor of peak summer visitor season on Washington's southwest coast, here is an assortment of early postcards from circa 1900-1910 featuring beach scenes in Long Beach and Ocean Park.
CHINOOK — A Coast Guard Air Station Astoria MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew hoists an injured boater after the vessel ran aground five miles east of Chinook on Aug. 5. The mariner was brought to awaiting EMS at Air Station Astoria.
The annual 75th birthday of Jake the Alligator Man brought a crowd to Long Beach on Saturday, Aug. 3.
Crew members from the Coast Guard cutter Steadfast interdict a go fast vessel in international waters of the eastern Pacific Ocean on July 18. They apprehended the suspected smugglers and seized about 2,300 pounds of cocaine.
Beautiful sunny skies greeted sandcastle builders in Long Beach Thursday, with events planned through Sunday.
A woman was successfully rescued from a cliff in Cape Disappointment State Park Friday evening.
A woman stranded on a cliff above the beach at Beards Hollow in Cape Disappointment State Park called for a rescue Friday afternoon at about 3:30 p.m. The Peninsula volunteer technical rescue team arrived at 4:20 p.m. and planned to either help her to the top or request aid from a U.S. Coast…
ICE detains Fabian Alberto Zamora-Rodriguez after a felony charge hearing for encouraging child sexual abuse at the Astoria courthouse on Thursday, July 18. Family and advocates surrounded Zamora-Rodriguez and were pepper-sprayed by ICE as they took him into custody.
A suspicious object discovered in Seaview on Wednesday afternoon led law enforcement to cordon off blocks from 46th to 48th. The Washington State Patrol Bomb Squad was summoned to the scene as a precaution and determined at about 9:20 p.m. that the object was a non-explosive round used for t…
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OCEAN PARK — The annual Old-Fashioned 4th of July Parade in the classic Washington coastal village of Ocean Park marks the apogee of summer and the pinnacle of patriotism.
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