A ghostly encounter, dated March 29, 1894, from the George Flavel Facebook page (courtesy of the Clatsop County Historical Society): “Last night the occupants of the house called in a neighbor to help ...

A black-and-white horror movie with a local touch is 1955’s “It Came from Beneath the Sea,” free to watch on YouTube. Ray Harryhausen, king of the stop-action critters, did the creepy octopus monster ...

Note: If you have arachnophobia, this creepy crawly item might give you nightmares. In the deep Sulfur Cave on the Albania and Greece border, a thick 1,141-square-foot communal silk spider web has ...

The last time Cyrus Javadi ran as our state representative, I was committed to defeating him. I wasn’t nice about it, either. I confronted his support of a morally dubious Texas governor. I denounced ...

There has been a lot of talk about the housing crisis we are facing in Astoria; a crisis that exists as the current status quo in thousands of communities across the country. Astoria’s housing ...

We have the unusual option this election of choosing from four candidates to be Astoria’s next mayor. Each of the candidates brings something different to this race. However, of the four, only one ...

It’s appalling to me how dysfunctional the postal service has become in our area. How is it that the postmaster refused to meet with our representative to Congress and local leaders in our community ...

During filming of “The Cycle” in the fall of 2024, movie producer Michael Downey remembers his favorite moment — when the crew asked local fire and police to shut down 12th and Exchange streets to ...

It was cold and windy with sporadic rain, but that didn’t stop 350 people from attending Talking Tombstones on Sunday. The event features volunteer actors dressed in historically accurate period ...

I remember I had been living in Astoria less than two months when, just around 5 p.m., my phone sent me a message from ClatsopAlerts. It was a tsunami watch alert, due to an 8.8 magnitude earthquake ...