According to OSP Lt. Gregg Hastings, Oregon State Police received toxicology test results from the State Medical Examiner’s office related to Lucas Brown, who died in a traffic crash on April 14, 2013, on Highway 30 west of Clatskanie. The crash also resulted in the death of his son, Noah Waite-Brown, age 8, several days [...]

For well over half of a century the neon sign of the Kilowatt Man hovered above Youngs Bay, glowingly reminding customers in Astoria, “Ready Kilowatt, always at your service.” Electric power was as close as the flip of a switch, and then, suddenly, the brightly burning sign was gone. While the power company remained in [...]

Warrenton, OR – Thursday, April 4th, at 3:00 PM, Warrenton Police Officer, Ray Ayers, was going on-duty for his patrol shift and turned his department-issued cell phone on. After powering up, Officer Ayers noted that he immediately received a text message notification and voice mail notification. Upon checking the text message and voice mail he [...]

No April’s Fool Day joke could have come off better than Astoria’s Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Program’s first day of construction on the project. Shortly after work started at the intersection of 8th St and Commercial in downtown Astoria, excavation work uncovered unexpected historic trolley tracks. Now that the historic trolley tracks have been discovered, [...]

Pacific Power warns customers and the public to be wary of giving their information out, especially right now, because of a phone scam targeting utility customers in Oregon and Washington. Crooks are posing as customer service agents and trying to get money and steal personal information. “We urge our customers to be extremely careful always, [...]