Long Beach News

The body of a 12-foot female orca washed ashore near Long Beach, Wash, about a mile north of the Cranberry beach approach, on Saturday.

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The former owner of North River Boats in the Green District has been sentenced to more than 88 years in prison for the murder of his former girlfriend.

The Daily News of Longview said 49-year-old Brian Brush was sentenced Thursday in Pacific County, Wash., Superior Court.

This is the biggest cleanup of the year organized by Washington CoastSavers, a part of the Washington Clean Coast Alliance.

Scientists are hoping necropsies scheduled for this afternoon will reveal how two whales died before washing ashore near Long Beach in recent days.

Experts are trying to determine what caused two whales to die off the Washington coast and wash ashore near Long Beach this weekend.

LONG BEACH, Wash. Two whales washed up along the Long Beach Peninsula after high winds and heavy surf slammed the Oregon and Washington coastlines this past week.