Emotions have gotten heated in isolated, picturesque Pacific County, pop. 22,000, a three-hour drive from Seattle, out there by the coast. As an anonymous leaflet left on car windshields the weekend ...

There’s a growing threat driving the county’s economy toward utter catastrophe. The county’s largest base of employment is on the verge of collapse, putting at risk thousands of family-wage jobs.

Troy Brynelson / OPB During a meeting Wednesday, administrators in Southwest Washington’s Pacific County proposed changing oversight of the jail. The change would take it out of the hands of county ...

PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington Secretary of State’s office is setting the record straight after Pacific County's elections office mistakenly published sample ballot results on their website ...

PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — For more than 122 years, the Chinook Observer has documented happenings in and around Pacific County, Wash., but moving forward the paper’s stories will no longer contain ...

Editor’s note: The video above about the explosion in Pacific County was originally published on Dec. 7, 2021. OCEAN PARK, Wash. - Investigators have identified the cause of a large explosion that ...

ILWACO, Wash. -- The first tornado to strike Pacific County in nearly 30 years was reported on Friday near Ilwaco, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado touched down just after 8 p.m.

Pacific County Sheriff Daniel Garcia kept his eyes on the road, behind a pair of sunglasses and under the brim of a Stetson hat. It was mid-August and he was leading a caravan of deputies north on ...

LONG BEACH, Wash. — Pacific County residents’ struggle to get affordable high-speed broadband plays a starring role in a thorough new draft report from the Washington State Department of Commerce. The ...