Does the Uppertown Firefighters Museum — formerly the North Pacific Brewery (pictured), then Uppertown Fire Station No. 2 — have a resident ghost? A 33-year member of the Astoria Fire Department, Dick ...

The Oregon Department of Transportation is evaluating at least 20 permits for such projects to investigate the extent to which they involve supporting data center operations. Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Did you know that 23 people reported “firsthand experiences” of ghostly phenomena at Fort Stevens State Park on the Haunted Places website, including seeing glowing orbs, apparitions in uniform and ...

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 ...

Astoria’s glamour ghoul, Vampira, aka Maila Nurmi, wrote “The Ghost of James Dean” in 1964 for Borderline Magazine. “I have always been interested in psychic phenomena,” she revealed, so it wasn’t a ...