The Astoria Regatta is in big company now - joining the Oregon State Fair, Pendleton Roundup and Linn County Pioneer Picnic as an Oregon Heritage Tradition.
The sun has been getting quite active lately, with one sun spot in particular giving off several explosive flares this week, and it could eventually bring some brilliant displays of the Northern Lights to the Pacific Northwest.
The first planeload of Copper River salmon from Cordova, Alaska, landed Friday morning at Sea-Tac Airport and the Alaska Airlines pilots carried a 40-pound king to waiting chefs.
A pilot is lucky to be alive after his plane crashed nose-first just short of the runway at Lynden's airport.
Carey-area rancher John Peavey tells the Idaho Mountain Express that the ewe, one lamb and two that weren't born were killed Sunday morning.
Helene Neville is running from Canada to Mexico. She's putting in 30-mile days en route to the Mexican border, talking to doctors, nurses and health practitioners along the way.
Susanne Weiss and Ken Froebig stumbled across their perfect business relationship when they met at a Halloween party in the 1990s.
The person who dumped paint, used oil, pesticides and diesel fuel on public lands created a costly mess for taxpayers and potentially caustic mix for the environment. But they didn't save any money.
The Kern County Fire Department is battling a massive wildfire 2 miles east of Frazier Park.
The boat ramp at Boulder Flat Campground on the North Umpqua River is temporarily closed because of a large tree that is fully spanning the river.
The Kern County Fire Department is battling a massive wildfire 2 miles east of Frazier Park.
The guard demonstrated one of its four drones Tuesday and said it was the first flight of an unmanned military aircraft through civilian airspace.
Eugene wants to spark redevelopment of a central stretch of Willamette River frontage vacated by the local electric utility.
With the record-dry weather and unseasonably warm temperatures, farmers in the Willamette Valley see strawberry season arriving as much as a month early this year.
Northern Lights peek out in Eastern Washington (Photo Gallery)
