Measure 4-247 would require certain owners of vacant homes to pay an annual tax of $6,000 to fund affordable housing. Proponents assume this expense can be absorbed without constraint. How many voters ...

League play is underway for all local volleyball teams as they dig into difficult schedules. Astoria’s volleyball team started off playing against league and potential title favorite Valley Catholic, ...

At approximately 8:21 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, Oregon State Police responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian crash on Highway 101 near milepost 122 in Lincoln County. The OSP had also received calls ...

Another campaign flyer from Max Sherman castigating our current state Rep. Cyrus Javadi for his transportation tax vote. I doubt very much this was easy for anyone to do, knowing the grief they will ...

WARRENTON — Cross country is not the ideal spectator sport (they blow a horn, all the competitors run into the woods), but one thing is certain: Cross-country ...

Man’s best friends took the lead on the North Beach Peninsula last weekend at Dog–O-Rama. It was a three-day dog focused beach festival with competitions for dogs of all breeds and skill levels.

The City of Seaside is going to replace over 500 of their streetlights, converting them from standard sodium to LED lights in an effort to save the city money and update lighting in key areas. In the ...

There used to be a whimsical mural on the Astor Elementary School east wall, created by Judith Niland for the 1990 movie “Kindergarten Cop.” Many were quite upset when the school district, in 2019, ...

If the theme of last year’s football season was about the start of new eras, the theme this season would be centered around a renewal of rivalries. The return of Banks and Valley Catholic to 4A, will ...

At the graveyard of the Pacific rests the last known surviving landing ship medium of World War II in the world — the Salvage Chief. After having spent a decade at Tongue Point, the Salvage Chief said ...

LONG BEACH — A commercial flight from Sea-Tac to Honolulu, Hawaii appears to have experienced an in-air emergency as it flew toward the Washington coastline. It appears to have made it safely back to ...

The council used recommendations earlier this year to slash taxes, reduce regulations and spur economic development in the state, but its findings are facing skepticism from the right and left. SALEM ...