Cascadia News

A bit of spray from a hose resulted in this semi-natural ice sculpture during the cold spell last week in Bill and Donnie McKinnona s yard at the corner of 54th Avenue and Osage Street in Foster.

Student poets can compete for cash and to have their work published this winter in the Oregon State Poetry Association's annual student contest.

The outlook is not good for Oregon bridges in a major earthquake. A study released Monday concludes that U.S. Highway 101 on the coast would be impassable, all connections from the coast to the Willamette Valley would be broken, and only small parts of Interstate 5 would be passable.

The Oregon State Poetry Association has opened submissions to its annual poetry contest for Oregon students in grades kindergarten through 12.

Geologists have uncovered the source of an unusual swarm of undersea earthquakes that struck the Oregon coast last spring.

Diane Shank, left, and Michelle Beaver, right, watch as Madison Barringer plays a game on her iPhone while they relax inside the Sweet Home Fire and Ambulance Districta s Cascadia Substation Saturday morning.

A conceptual illustration of a proposed new Cannon Beach City Hall that would be elevated above all but the largest potential tsunamis and could serve as an evacuation shelter for residents who do not have time to reach higher ground.

Brewmaster Ron Gansberg with the beer cart at The Bite earlier this summer... Autumnal Prequinox Celebration, 3 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., Saturday Sept.

A father and his two sons from Sweet Home, who were overdue returning from a hike in the Canyon Creek area east of Sweet Home, were found Saturday evening after a search by the Sheriffa s Department.

A father and his two sons from Sweet Home, who were overdue returning from a hike in the Canyon Creek area east of Sweet Home, were found Saturday evening after a search by the Sheriffa s Department.

Officials with the Sweet Home Ranger District are offering a chance to enjoy a piece of living history on Aug.

An 80-year-old Cascadia man was found alive and apparently healthy Sunday morning, July 26, after being missing for 28 hours.

The monarch butterfly is the world's only major migrating butterfly and one rarely seen in northwestern Oregon, but it is common east of the Cascades in the summer as it prepares for its fall trip south to Mexico and coastal California.

An American Religious Identification Survey in 1990 pointed to the Pacific Northwest as home of the greatest number of people who, when asked their religious preference, said "none." A new ARIS survey says that number has increased in Oregon from 18 to 24 percent and in Washington from 15 to 25 percent, giving rise to this region being called the ...

An 80-year-old man missing since Saturday has been found alive in the Cascadia area in east Linn County.

Former Sweet Home residents graduated from a number of colleges and universities across the nation this spring.

More than a year after its financial crash threatened to upend mental health care services in Multnomah County, Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare made its first payment on the $2.3 million government bailout that allowed the agency to stay afloat.

HUB brewer Ben Love with a glass of Secession Cascadian dark ale at the NAOBF. North American Organic Brewers Festival organizers joined forces with Hopworks Urban Brewery to brew a revolutionary Cascadian Dark Ale, dubbed Secession , which debuted at the festival in Portland's Overlook Park last weekend.

The mayors of Portland and Vancouver B.C. have signed an agreement to lobby for better passenger rail service in the Northwest, which could include improvements to the Amtrak Cascades service.