Ilwaco News

If your romantic getaway includes walks on the beach, waves breaking over jetties and a lighthouse to add drama to your pictures, youa ll find the Shelburne Inn to be the ultimate coastal experience.

Top: A bronze, life-size sculpture of a California condor will be dedicated at the Port of Ilwaco as part of the "Ocian in View" celebration.

A coalition of parks and organizations is hosting "Graveyard of the Pacific Weekend" this week at locations throughout the Ilwaco-Astoria area.

Q: We are headed for Long Beach, Pacific County, and understand that the Ark restaurant is closed.

If the mere mention of chanterelles and morels gets you salivating, consider a trip to a mushroom festival this fall.

Fishing has been good in most Western Washington rivers. Steelhead, chinook, coho and sea-run cutthroat catches have been very good in the Cowlitz River from the mouth to the salmon hatchery.

The U.S. government is sending a life preserver, of sorts, to a small harbor along the Columbia River in the extreme southwest corner of the state.

Steve Wang, interpretive program manager for Washington State Parks, has received a national lifetime achievement award.

Venue: ArtsWest Gallery Abandoned and Thieves Paintings and by Mark Takamichi Miller.

With the summer crowds gone, now is the best time of year to take a tour of the Long Beach Peninsula with a camera in hand.

Chinook salmon are turning the corner toward their natal fresh waters -- the Columbia River, Willapa Bay and several Puget Sound rivers -- and coho salmon are moving in not far behind them, as both do every ...

Recreational anglers will have two more days, Friday and Saturday, to fish for halibut in the waters off Ilwaco in southwest Washington.

WDFW biologist Joe Hymer noted that salmon were scarce during the first few days of fishing at Buoy 10, which he called "not so unusual for that fishery." Maybe this particular slowdown is unusual.

ILWACO, Wash. - The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife has announced that Columbia River anglers will be able to catch chinook salmon throughout August during this year's Buoy 10 fishery, but will be ...

Suzanne and Ed Leonard pose for a photo on Friday in Ilwaco. Both their lives took many twists, from her thinking he'd died in a Laotian jungle plane crash during the Vietnam War, to his five years in North ...

Sturgeon fishing reopens in the lower Columbia today through Saturday below the Wauna power lines downstream to Buoy 10 and all adjacent tributaries.

Sturgeon fishing reopens in the lower Columbia today through Saturday below the Wauna power lines downstream to Buoy 10 and all adjacent tributaries.

With the arrival of summer, anglers have their pick of numerous fishing opportunities throughout the state.

The first completed work in the Lewis and Clark Confluence Project by artist and sculpture Maya Lin, who is best known for designing the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., is at Cape Disappointment State ...

Discovering Cape Disappointment may have been a downer for British Capt. John Meares in 1788, but the state park on the southern tip of Washington's Long Beach Peninsula is a great destination for history buffs ...