“You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.” — Mrs. Bennet, Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” In the back room of the Astoria Visual Arts Gallery, “Mrs. Bennet” was ...

Measure 4-247 would require certain owners of vacant homes to pay an annual tax of $6,000 to fund affordable housing. Proponents assume this expense can be absorbed without constraint. How many voters ...

At approximately 8:21 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 19, Oregon State Police responded to a vehicle versus pedestrian crash on Highway 101 near milepost 122 in Lincoln County. The OSP had also received calls ...

In the week following his wife’s death, Jan Gregor came into The Astorian with the hope of sharing the memory of his wife and her story to the people of Astoria. Because his wife had been “very ...

Another campaign flyer from Max Sherman castigating our current state Rep. Cyrus Javadi for his transportation tax vote. I doubt very much this was easy for anyone to do, knowing the grief they will ...

The decision comes as the state ended a lengthy legal battle with a conservative legal advocacy group which had sued on behalf of a Christian mother from Malheur County. Oregon’s prospective foster ...

As Oregon officials begin to send ballots out for the upcoming November election, the state’s top elections officer is encouraging voters to verify whether their election-related mail comes from an ...

Before Astoria creates a vacancy tax, let’s look at the facts. The proposed vacancy tax, Measure 4-247, has become one of the most discussed issues in Astoria as voters prepare to consider it this ...

WARRENTON — Cross country is not the ideal spectator sport (they blow a horn, all the competitors run into the woods), but one thing is certain: Cross-country ...

Ereena Zmitrovich “grew a thousand and-a-half pounds of garlic and needed to sell it,” she said. That’s why Zmitrovich was on site at a garlic festival on the Long Beach Peninsula. Zmitrovich is the ...

“Everything you could think of is probably at the garlic festival whether you’ve thought of it or not,” said Suzanne Luttrell of the Ocean Park Area Chamber of Commerce. The 44th annual Northwest ...

Man’s best friends took the lead on the North Beach Peninsula last weekend at Dog–O-Rama. It was a three-day dog focused beach festival with competitions for dogs of all breeds and skill levels.