The listing agent for the Victorian home featured in the “The Goonies” film in Astoria, Oregon, says the likely new owner is a fan of the classic coming-of-age movie about friendships and treasure hunting, and he promises to preserve and protect the landmark.

Lawmakers in an Australian state have pledged their allegiance to King Charles III with some using the occasion to call for an Australian republic.

A “creepy Victorian murder doll” was caught terrorizing a small North Texas town and causing quite a stir among city staff, residents and first responders.

A decaying, 122-year-old property marketed as “the worst house on the best block” of San Francisco has sold for nearly $2 million.

The governing body of Oxford University’s Oriel College says a controversial statue of Victorian imperialist Cecil Rhodes will not be taken down because of “regulatory and financial challenges.”.

Workers pass a Victorian home as a truck pulls it through San Francisco on Sunday, Feb. 21, 2021. According to the consultant overseeing the project, the move cost approximately $200,000 and involved removing street lights, parking meters, and utility lines. (AP Photo/Noah Berger)SAN FRANCISCO – After 139 years at 807 Franklin St. in San Francisco, a two-story Victorian house has a new address. The house’s journey has been in the planning stages for years, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. AdThe owner of the six-bedroom house, San Francisco broker Tim Brown, will pay about $400,000 in fees and moving costs, the Chronicle said.

(AP Photo/Andy Brownbill)MELBOURNE – Melbourne, Australia’s second-largest city, will begin its third lockdown on Friday due to a rapidly spreading COVID-19 cluster centered on hotel quarantine. The five-day lockdown will be enforced across Victoria state to prevent the virus spreading from the state capital, Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews said. Only international flights that were already in the air when the lockdown was announced will be allowed to land at Melbourne Airport. Federal lawmakers were on Friday rushing to get to the national capital Canberra to attend Parliament on Monday for fear that the Australian Capital Territory government will restrict their entry. Morrison said before the lockdown was announced that he was confident the state government could handle the cluster.

The first commercially printed Christmas card is up for sale — a merry Victorian-era scene that scandalized some who denounced it as humbug when it first appeared in 1843. “A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to You,” it reads. That didn't sit well at the time with the puritanical Temperance Society, which kicked up such a fuss it took three years before another Christmas card was produced. “They were quite distressed that in this ‘scandalous’ picture they had children toasting with a glass of wine along with the adults. It's believed to have gone on sale in the same week in December 1843 that Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol” first was published.

Gibbs, who after the Civil War got into the land and railroad business in San Antonio, built it. He owned about 10,000 acres of land and built his home as one of the first in the now historical Government Hill neighborhood. Which at the time was the tallest building.”Fullmer said the home was a prominent social symbol where Gibbs loved to host social gatherings. “Gibbs was a land guy, we are land people and it’s a new tradition to carry on,” Fullmer said. “The big issue was the wood,” Fullmer said.

While the dangerous plumes are forcing people inside along the West Coast, residents thousands of miles away in the East are seeing unusually hazy skies and remarkable sunsets. The wildfires racing across tinder-dry landscape in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington are extraordinary, but the long reach of their smoke isn't unprecedented. The sun was transformed into a perfect orange orb as it set over New York City on Tuesday. But Solum said there's always a chance for more smoke and haze to shift around. She said millions of people who live beyond the flames can end up dealing with diminished air quality as it's not uncommon for wildfire smoke to travel hundreds of miles.

Victoria state, Australia's coronavirus hot spot, announced on Monday that businesses will be closed and scaled down in a bid to curb the spread of the virus. The new 24-hour record was marginally higher than the 723 cases and 13 deaths reported last Thursday. He added that the notion of more than 700 cases is not sustainable.In other developments in Asia and the Pacific: Hong Hong has reported 80 new virus cases and four additional deaths. China reported 27 new virus cases on the mainland Wednesday. China has reported 4,634 deaths among 84,491 cases since the virus was first detected in the central city of Wuhan late last year.

(AP Photo/Asanka Brendon Ratnayake)MELBOURNE Melbournes usually vibrant downtown streets were draining of signs of life on Wednesday on the eve of Australias toughest-ever pandemic restrictions coming into force. The closing down of Australias second-largest city, which usually accounts for a quarter of the nations economic activity, also coincided with frenetic preparation. Many Melbourne businesses in this city of 5 million are not expected to survive the second and harshest lockdown. Melbourne residents were evenly split between those who resented the new impositions and those who wholehearted supported them, she said. Authorities are concerned that many Melbourne residents were ignoring orders to stay home, even when they were infected with the coronavirus.