Ilwaco News

An overnight storm targeted Pacific County with strong winds and heavy rain, knocking out power to about 11,000 customers and blocking roads with downed trees and power lines.

Washington has seen an increase in the number of fishing licenses sold this year, beating a national trend.

Two Portland institutions and a Southwest Washington bank with a significant local presence have been allocated $130 million to spur investments in low-income and developing communities.

The troubled Columbia Gorge Hotel may have found a buyer. Vijay Patel, who owns a small chain of hotels in Eastern Oregon and Washington state, told The Oregonian he will buy the historic gorge hotel for more than $4 million.

Cape Disappointment State Park and the Columbia River Maritime Museum hosting the Graveyard of the Pacific Weekend Saturday and Sunday at locations in the Ilwaco-Astoria area.

A Pacific City man has been arrested on a charge of theft and murder in the disappearance of his business partner during a boating trip to Washington.

A Pacific City man has been arrested on charges he killed his business partner and dumped his body in the Pacific Ocean.

A 47-year-old Pacific City man has been arrested in the July disappearance of a friend and business partner last seen in the southwest Washington Port of Ilwaco, Oregon State Police said Tuesday night.

Washington's Discovery Trail on the Long Beach peninsula. The Discovery Trail is finally open.

Warning, lighthouse romantics. I'm about to introduce you to the historical lighthouse life that may dent your romantic view of lighthouses, so feel free to turn the page.

Mark Yuasa covers fishing and outdoors in the Pacific Northwest. A Seattle native, Mark is a lifelong angler who grew up near the banks of Lake Washington, and has been covering fishing and outdoors for more than 18 years for The Seattle Times.

Brian Baird will hold town hall tonight in Ilwaco. U.S. Rep. Brian Baird backed out of a promise to hold a living room meeting at the home of a Pacific County Republican chairwoman, the GOP activist said Monday.

Investigators with the national transportation safety board have issued a preliminary report on a private plane which crashed while flying from Jerome to Ilwaco, Washington earlier this month, killing all 3 men on board, including one Magic Valley resident.

Seaside police are warning beach crowds to watch out for sharks. Police officers on Sunday drove up and down the beach and used loudspeakers to announce a shark sighting.

The Civil Air Patrol has spotted the wreckage of an airplane near Homedale Monday.

The Civil Air Patrol has spotted the wreckage of an airplane near Homedale Monday.

The Civil Air Patrol has spotted the wreckage of an airplane near Homedale. The plane left Jerome on Friday, but failed to show up at its destination on the southern Washington coast.

There is something about fishing towns, maybe it's the idyllic scenes of the foggy docks, pleasure and commercial boats moored alongside one another, or the alluring smell of the sea.

Divers found no sign of a missing Albany fisherman on Thursday. A dive team searched without success Thursday for a missing Albany fisherman last seen over the Independence Day weekend along the south Washington coast.

Salmon fishing has been exceptionally good in Marine Area 1 and Marine Area 2 the past couple of weeks and continues to be impressive this week.