Pacific County Sheriff Daniel Garcia kept his eyes on the road, behind a pair of sunglasses and under the brim of a Stetson hat. It was mid-August and he was leading a caravan of deputies north on ...

PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — The Washington Secretary of State’s office is setting the record straight after Pacific County's elections office mistakenly published sample ballot results on their website ...

ILWACO, Wash. -- The first tornado to strike Pacific County in nearly 30 years was reported on Friday near Ilwaco, according to the National Weather Service. The tornado touched down just after 8 p.m.

Emotions have gotten heated in isolated, picturesque Pacific County, pop. 22,000, a three-hour drive from Seattle, out there by the coast. As an anonymous leaflet left on car windshields the weekend ...

Troy Brynelson / OPB During a meeting Wednesday, administrators in Southwest Washington’s Pacific County proposed changing oversight of the jail. The change would take it out of the hands of county ...

PACIFIC COUNTY, Wash. — For more than 122 years, the Chinook Observer has documented happenings in and around Pacific County, Wash., but moving forward the paper’s stories will no longer contain ...

There’s a growing threat driving the county’s economy toward utter catastrophe. The county’s largest base of employment is on the verge of collapse, putting at risk thousands of family-wage jobs.

Lying on the ground with blood pouring from the back of his head and fearing he would die, Washington State Trooper Scott Johnson didn't think, he reacted. Just as he'd been trained to do.