Cannon Beach News

It's now officially summer on the Oregon coast. And what a big bang it's starting off with.

A tufted puffin is the star of the beach party on Fourth of July weekend at Cannon Beach.

I am from the NW but I have been away for a while. I am coming in July and I will be bringing my girlfriend who has never been to the NW.

I see that two more Republican leaders have proved that their party's family values must mean valuing the women in other people's families.

Smuggler's Cove in Oswald West State Park Oregon even sounds like a comfortable resting spot for your vacation, doesn't it? Wait until you are given all the wonders of the area and the truly relaxing atmosphere, you will be totally convinced it is your kind of getaway.

Go fly a kite in front of Haystack Rock at Cannon Beach. Enter the "Send Terry on the road'' contest, for a chance to win a weekend getaway to central Oregon, by posting a comment with an Oregon travel tip on this Web site.

Major low tides are hitting the Oregon coast these days, and more are coming this week - and even throughout the summer.

PORTLAND, Ore. Searching for shipwrecks and exploring tide pools along the Oregon coast will be easier next week when extremely low tides will expose areas normally hidden by the pounding surf.

Oxalis fills the cracks of my sidewalk and makes me crazy. I'm going to try vinegar to get rid of it ... or at least help control it.

A collection of pictures of sand castles from the Cannon Beach competition in Oregon.

From fireworks to food, music to mirth-making, brews to rubber duckies, it's a mish mash of fun and funkiness along the Oregon coast for the Fourth of July.

The goal : Get out of Dodge by me-self for three days and do it by car. Astoria-Megler Bridge, which links Oregon to Washington state.

Pay cuts, salary freezes, disappearing jobs -- if there was ever a time Oregonians needed a beach retreat, it's now.

My family will be touring the Pacific Northwest at the end of this month, starting in Portland with a couple of days in Cannon Beach before venturing northward.

Experts at Oregon State University in Corvallis are currently working with state and federal officials and Cannon Beach residents to create a new city hall.

It'll be lights out in much of Cannon Beach starting at 11 tonight. Pacific Power will turn off the power to work on the enhancements to the electric system.

Fabrizio Asaro and Bob, his 2-year-old Pekingese-pug mix, hang out in Pacific City with Peter Christiansen and an unidentified friend.

The Oregon House unanimously passed a bill Thursday that funds the state's first two fishing-free marine reserves and sets a schedule for studying four others.

Paint peeled. Plaster crumbled. Decades of dust cloaked windowsills, armoires and unmade beds, as if the Commodore Hotel's last guest had hung a "Do not disturb" sign, and for more than 40 years not a soul did.

CANNON BEACH, Ore. - Rather than run afoul of a city ordinance, a Cannon Beach couple has appealed their desire to raise chickens at home to the City Council.