Warrenton News

The 285 Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook county residents who were told they would lose housing assistance could be safe from eviction for at least one more month, if the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority board votes tomorrow to use reserve funds to pay residents' July rent.

It's impossible to separate Lewis and Clark from the Northwest. The captains led a journey that would have been incredible even by today's standards.

Major low tides are hitting the Oregon coast these days, and more are coming this week - and even throughout the summer.

Months of planning and preparations will soon be tested as Airmen, Soldiers and Sailors gear up for a major U.S. Northern Command air defense exercise here beginning today.

Emergency crews resumed searching today for a missing Columbia River boater. Michael D. Moore, 42, of Warrenton, and Richard L. Dewey, 41, of Knappa, were thrown from a 14-foot aluminum boat on Sunday when it struck an object in the water, said Clatsop County sheriff's deputy Paul Williams.

From fireworks to food, music to mirth-making, brews to rubber duckies, it's a mish mash of fun and funkiness along the Oregon coast for the Fourth of July.

Her business plan for uniquely flavored dog treats garnered a cash prize of $100. NEW YORK, NY, June 12, 2009 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Harlem Hip-Hop Tours is proud to announce that Warrenton, Oregon resident, Maia Mahoney, has won the top cash prize of $100 for her business plan about launching "The Pupcakery," a business that produces unique and ...

" A northwest Oregon National Guard base will host nearly 200 Soldiers and Airmen, and a U.S. Navy destroyer will patrol coastal waters while participating in a major U.S. Northern Command air defense exercise in mid-June. Exercise Amalgam Dart - Y09 will take place at Camp Rilea and nearby Warrenton, Ore June 18-20. It is one of several exercises ...

ASTORIA, Ore. - The Port of Astoria Commission has three more months to decide whether to renew a lease tied to a proposed liquefied natural gas terminal after the state extended a deadline.

The Wildlife Center of the North Coast recently released 14 California brown pelicans that were stranded in this winter's snowstorms and taken in for treatment.

A decayed body found on an island in the Columbia River was identified as a man missing from Astoria last December.

No one reading a recent cavalcade of depressing news stories can doubt that an economic wildfire is sweeping away many of the last vestiges of the Pacific Northwest's once-dominant logging industry.

ASTORIA - It's not gale-force yet, but small-scale wind energy development is gathering momentum on Oregon's north coast.

A 12-year-old boy was killed when a gun he was handling went off Sunday. Clatsop County investigators said the handgun accidentally went off at the home in Hammond.

Police say a 12-year-old Hammond boy accidentally shot himself with a .22-caliber handgun Sunday morning.

A 12-year-old Hammond boy was killed on Mother's Day after a handgun he was playing with inside his home accidentally fired, authorities said.

A 12-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself Sunday, police said. Warrenton police found the boy dead Sunday morning at a home in Hammond near Astoria.

The Clatsop County District Attorney's Office is investigating the death of a 12-year-old boy who shot himself with a .22-caliber handgun.

ASTORIA - A former Astoria mayor and her pilot son have been identified as the survivors of a small plane crash on the Columbia River near the Astoria docks.

A small plane ended up in the Columbia River at Astoria Friday afternoon and the two people on board, members of an old, well-established Astoria family, survived.