A house in Otis that sold for $1.2 million tops the list of the most expensive residential real estate sales on the northern Oregon coast in the past week.

But in our long experience with obscure American statistical capitals, Astoria, Oregon, doesn’t pass the smell test as the ...

By Christian Murray Thomas Ballis, a lifelong Astoria resident, knows the neighborhood like the back of his hand. “I was born and raised in ...