Even though I’m sure she’s said it hundreds of times, she can never say it with a straight face. “We’re the Happy Hookers!” Jerre McDanald cheerily declares as she stands to introduce herself. And ...

OYSTERVILLE — Sometimes Double J and the Boy sing in Spanish. Sometimes in Swedish or Cowboy or English. Sometimes even in Yodel! And, according to Judy Eron, the group’s spokesperson, “We’re ...

Salmon hang outside the Pacific Salmon Charter office following a successful opening day of the ocean recreational season on Saturday, June 20, at the Port of Ilwaco.

Go to a rocky West Coast beach at low tide, and you’ll see a constellation of small, glassy pools of water, the residual ocean left behind when it was tugged away by the moon. These pools are an ...

LONG BEACH PENINSULA — It’s nearly the Fourth of July, which means it’s nearly fireworks season along this sliver of the Washington coast. But as the long July 4 holiday weekend approaches, when tens ...

Reaction to the revelation of Timberland Regional Library [TRL] Board of Trustees President Brian Mittge’s list of “desired outcomes” has been swift and passionate. While Lewis County Commissioner ...

ILWACO — Local organizations, businesses and individuals came together earlier this month to assist the newest Ilwaco High School graduates in continuing their education. Some $154,000 in community ...

Farmer Deb of Willapa Bay Heritage Farm held a “Kids for Kids” event over Memorial Day Weekend in support of Ocean Beach Health Foundation and the Long Beach clinic serving women and children. Here ...

The Ilwaco-based Occident Lodge 48, Free and Accepted Masons of Washington, has awarded $3,500 in scholarships to students graduating in the class of 2026. • Jonathan E. Jacobo Contreras, South Bend ...

The Freemasons at Occident Lodge 48 in Ilwaco teamed with Ocean Beach and Naselle-Grays River school districts on Saturday May 23, to honor students for citizenship. The event was led by chairman Mike ...

Federal cannabis policy changes, market consolidation and difficulties with illicit-market enforcement remain among the biggest challenges facing Washington’s legal marijuana industry, according to ...

“Millions of acres of tree-cloaked wealth where the sun’s direct rays never reached the ground,” wrote Sam Churchill, author of “Big Sam,” about the tremendous stands of Northwest timber in the 1800s ...