Jeff Clemens

Hours after reportedly taking her uncle’s vehicle without permission, a woman returned it but is now facing a felony charge. The Pacific County Sheriff’s Office responded to the report of a stolen vehicle on May 20.

NORTH PACIFIC COUNTY — “I’m going to … kill you,” is what video evidence allegedly shows a woman high on meth saying to her daughter.

The F/V Lucas heads toward Willapa Bay after offloading during the peak of chum fishing in 2025. This non-tribal fishery in Willapa Bay — along with others in the Columbia-Pacific region on the south Washington coast — may be about to become the focus of a major legal battle. (Luke Whittaker/Chinook Observer file)

Half the Dungeness crab in Pacific County and the Columbia River estuary — among the most valuable catches in the Pacific Northwest — would go to the Quinault Tribe of Grays Harbor County if a Quinault demand is granted. (Luke Whittaker/Chinook Observer)

FBI agents arrested a Seaview man on allegations of sex crimes.

ILWACO — In a move with massive implications for commercial and recreational fishermen — and for the Chinook Indian Nation — a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife email leaked May 28 …

LONG BEACH — A news tip in May asserted the Long Beach Police Department (LBPD) is at risk of being disbanded, with Long Beach City Administrator David Glasson feeling the […]

Incidents involving an out-of-town man who was in Raymond working on a project at the Weyerhaeuser mill ended with a major scuffle inside a bathroom on May 25. Cory A. Dean had been reportedly armed with a knife and set off a canister of pepper spray during a standoff.

The R/V Sikuliaq returning to Seward, Alaska, after a successful Global tation Papa Array operations and maintenance cruise. The vessel is loaded with recovered Papa moorings and the recovered University of Washington/Applied Physics Laboratory Waverider system. Image depicts work supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation Ocean Observatories Initiative. (National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine)

RAYMOND — Questions have been swirling about how the Pacific County Sheriff’s Office (PCSO) handled a suicidal-individual incident on May 10 at around 12:22 a.m. The incident has resulted in a family member of the individual writing a letter to the agency requesting an investigation into how it was handled.