Ocean Park 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.

A body that washed ashore on the Long Beach Peninsula near Ocean Park on Monday morning may be that of a Kingston man who has been missing since his boat disappeared in a storm last month, according to sheriff's investigators in Grays Harbor County.

SOUTH BEND, Wash. - The Pacific County sheriff's office says a body washed ashore on the Long Beach Peninsula near Ocean Park.

Dustin Leitzell is at home today recovering from a crash that killed four of his friends last month.

Sonja Brown, left, Alissa Bennett and Allie Kestner visited Ridgefield High School Tuesday morning before going to a Portland hospital to await news of their injured friend.

Ridgefield High School 2009 graduates Sonja Brown, 18, left, Alissa Bennett, 18, and Allie Kestner, 18, sit outside Ridgefield High on Tuesday, next to a memorial for four Ridgefield High School graduates that were killed in a car accident on Monday morning.

U.S. Transportation Department officials figured Thursday morning they had applications in hand for about one-tenth of the $1 billion Congress had set aside for "cash for clunkers" rebates to people who turn in old vehicles for new, more fuel-efficient ones.

Something's just not right at the Colorado mountain retreat that serves as the menacing backdrop for the latest thriller by Yale law professor Stephen L. Carter, "Jericho's Fall," a simmering page-turner about the murky underbelly of intelligence and finance that has "Morgan Freeman movie blockbuster" written all over it.

For the second time in a week, a motorist has deliberately driver over protected sea birds, this time, on Sunset Beach area by Fort Stevens State Park.

A 20-year-old man could face prison time after police say he drove through dozens of birds on purpose.

A 20-year-old man drove a Jeep at high speeds for three hours along the beach at Ocean Park, Washington, disrupting bird flocks and killing at least 34 birds, according to a SeattlePI.com story.

OCEAN PARK, Wash. - Authorities in Washington state say a young motorist repeatedly drove through flocks of federally protected shore birds on a beach, killing dozens of them.

Heermann's gull has to be euthanized. A young Washington man admitted to police today that he mowed down five to 10 flocks of seabirds on the coastline in Long Beach while driving his truck at high speed on the beach.

Oyster larvae have been dying by the billions. Scientists suspect it's a sign that carbon dioxide is dramatically affecting the ocean - and if they're right, it could push Washington into the center of the debate about the future of the seas.

Max Tell is included in the lineup of entertainment during Ocean Park Day festivities, June 20 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 128 Street and 16 Avenue.