Ethelbert the orca somehow ended up stranded miles from the ocean in the Columbia Slough, much to the delight of most Portland residents. But...

No one in Tillamook County even suspected the Lee Film Company was a front for government Prohibition enforcement until the trap was sprung ...

WPA writer Walker Winslow's oral history interview with William Huntley Hampton, a son of Brigham Young although not a Mormon, who was probably Oregon's second most famous mining engineer...

On the morning of Nov. 25, 1881, two men were walking to work along the North End waterfront when they saw something incongruous in the river...

The Femme Fatale, like most really satisfying tropes in fiction, is based on real life....

In a race with Portland neophile Henry Wemme to be the first owner of an airplane in Oregon, Cornell-educated John Burkhart was two weeks too late; but...

The geographical evidence isn't there; but every nearby Indian community has legends about the river tunneling underground for miles...

Young Charley Imus was the son of the local undertaker, and he and a school friend were tasked with watching over a corpse while an Irish wake was going on...

IN THE SUMMER of 1981 a little action-adventure movie titled Raiders of the Lost Ark came out, and fans have been speculating ever since on who the character of Indiana Jones might be based on....

This was the town where the Eastern Oregon Gold Rush of '61 got started, and it was a wild and lawless place...