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“This was something we had to have,” Andrea Nichols said, holding up two pottery pieces, a planter and a mug, each with a glazed charcoal surf…
Lissa Brewer
Coast Weekend editor
On the weathered East Mooring Basin docks near Astoria’s Pier 39, a cacophony of barking signals the season. A lone sea lion surfaces near the…
Across Oregon’s coastal mountains from Astoria lie the rolling hills of Willamette Valley, one of the state’s most recognized wine growing reg…
Tide lines, receding twice each day along the coast, reveal hidden landscapes, layers of the intertidal zone often thriving under feet of salt…
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Spring in Cannon Beach may bring bright skies or grey squalls, sometimes both within a single hour, but each year the season reliably brings art.
When coastal residents, prompted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture among other federal and state agencies, began nearly a century ago to p…
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Robbie McClaran’s journey along the banks of the Columbia River began quietly near his home in the St. Johns neighborhood of Portland.
Above the coast’s rolling whitewater waves rise islets in the mist, sandstone and basalt sea stacks, icons of the Northwest landscape. A varie…
Enjoyed across Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and other parts of Southeast Asia for decades, bubble tea has made a splash across the West Coast i…