Not long ago a colleague told me she was headed to Italy for the first time. "I'm just hitting all the usual places," she said, "Rome, Venice, Florence and Cinque Terre." I smiled because Cinque ...

Writer and activist Bill Carter will speak at the Fisher Poets Gathering in Astoria Feb. 22-23. Carter is a leading critic of the Pebble Mine, an open pit copper mine proposed near Bristol Bay in ...

But, on June 4, the restaurant closed its doors. Rick Valentine, the owner of Sauced Up and his own packing company, Valentine Food Company, announced the decision in a Facebook post on Tuesday.