It was cold and windy with sporadic rain, but that didn’t stop 350 people from attending Talking Tombstones on Sunday. The event features volunteer actors dressed in historically accurate period ...

The last time Cyrus Javadi ran as our state representative, I was committed to defeating him. I wasn’t nice about it, either. I confronted his support of a morally dubious Texas governor. I denounced ...

There has been a lot of talk about the housing crisis we are facing in Astoria; a crisis that exists as the current status quo in thousands of communities across the country. Astoria’s housing ...

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” — Martin Luther King Jr., from “Strength in Love,” 1963. After 66 years as an Oregonian, I have witnessed ...

Senior Lunch — Dining hall opens at 11 a.m., Bob Chisholm Community Center, 1225 Avenue A, Seaside. Meals are for ages 60 and over; there’s a $3 donation. For information, call Kim Combs at ...

Astoria’s glamour ghoul, Vampira, aka Maila Nurmi, wrote “The Ghost of James Dean” in 1964 for Borderline Magazine. “I have always been interested in psychic phenomena,” she revealed, so it wasn’t a ...

Did you know that 23 people reported “firsthand experiences” of ghostly phenomena at Fort Stevens State Park on the Haunted Places website, including seeing glowing orbs, apparitions in uniform and ...

You have probably noticed a new byline in the pages of The Astorian. Fox Perez, our newest reporter, started on the last day in August and has been blazing a trail ever since, writing titillating ...

A ghostly encounter, dated March 29, 1894, from the George Flavel Facebook page (courtesy of the Clatsop County Historical Society): “Last night the occupants of the house called in a neighbor to help ...

During filming of “The Cycle” in the fall of 2024, movie producer Michael Downey remembers his favorite moment — when the crew asked local fire and police to shut down 12th and Exchange streets to ...

Jerith Austin Grace, 30, of Astoria, was arraigned Monday on charges of assault in the second degree, unlawful use of a weapon and menacing.

I remember I had been living in Astoria less than two months when, just around 5 p.m., my phone sent me a message from ClatsopAlerts. It was a tsunami watch alert, due to an 8.8 magnitude earthquake ...