Sept. 5, 1883, is the anniversary of the grounding of Pacific Coast Steamship Co.’s Queen of the Pacific on Clatsop Spit. The ...

It’s been rather under the radar for a while, but Oregon State University and PacWave have two wave energy testing facilities ...

For seven months, warning signs outside a residence on Armstrong Street near Old Willapa accumulated in plain view of responding deputies. The home’s water was disconnected, the power was shut off and ...

Psilocybin, a psychedelic compound found in over 200 species of mushrooms and utilized by some Indigenous groups since pre-colonialism, was legalized in Oregon in 2020 by a ballot measure that created ...

What’s the right feeling to have about Oregon’s latest state revenue forecast? There are positives and negatives. We end up negative. The forecast is up. That’s good. The forecast is that the ending ...

The League of Oregon Cities wants to change Oregon Public Meetings Law, it announced in its new list of legislative priorities for 2027-2028. Yikes, was our first thought. It had supported a bill, ...

You might say Bob Duke wrote his own destiny. Duke has been what you might call the showrunner for The Astorian’s “Water under the Bridge” for over two decades. It takes up a whole page of newspaper ...

A federal judge froze for two weeks a Trump administration regulation to restrict mail voting late Thursday, calling the U.S. Postal Service rule a violation of states’ power to administer elections.

About a 100 or so campers pulled up to the waterfront on the land side of Pier 39 in Astoria for the event Rigs and Reggae co-hosted by Pino’s Adventures founded by couple Christine Coleman and Peter ...

Here’s another note of appreciation about Astoria from “The Cycle” crew, this time from Michael Downey, one of the film’s producers and brother of the director, Jordan Downey. This one was posted on ...

About 40 community members gathered on Thursday, Aug. 20 at The Astoria Armory to meet several candidates for positions within the Astoria City Council. Laura Parker, Jim Forrester and Justin Grafton ...

Oregon author Ken Kesey, famous for “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest,” might be even more well-known for his 1939 International Harvester school bus, an Oregon icon named Furthur, which carried the ...