After a brief price strike ended Saturday with a marginally improved starting offer of $3 a pound from processors, Lower Columbia River crabbers hustled to get pots into the water fast as possible on Sunday, Dec. 29. Reporting from the Ilwaco waterfront at about 2 p.m. Sunday, Chinook Observ…
Ilwaco High School's jazz band performs Friday, Dec. 20 at the school's holiday gift-giving event.
The completed North Jetty provides remarkable close-up views of the raging Pacific to the north and the calm, protected waters just inside the Columbia River entrance to the south. The smooth road surface makes a pleasant walking trail, but the structure wasn't designed for pedestrians and g…
Santa and Mrs. Claus came to town Saturday, Nov. 30, to help the City of Long Beach light its Christmas tree.
For the past two days, summer rain has been the order of the day.
Surfside resident Steve Flickinger captured this video of a sneaker wave on Oct. 17 during high tide at Seabreeze Lake and 350th outfall to the ocean note. Attached still photos show a sign above the outfall. White foam shows how high water came up. It's always a good idea to keep a close ey…
Turbulent late-summer weather created intense downpours on the Peninsula Monday and generated this waterspout in the ocean just off the Oysterville beach approach in Surfside at around 6:30 p.m. Unlike tornadoes, waterspouts typically do no serious damage, falling apart as they come onto lan…
Volunteers keep a beached 20-foot juvenile humpback whale wet in Waldport on Wednesday. It eventually had to be euthanized.
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.
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