"With school quickly approaching, we want all students, teachers, parents, and neighbors to do their part in ensuring a safe and fun school year," writes the Washington County Sheriff's Office in this month's ASK WCSO column.
Washington County residents can hear directly from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden in a Forest Grove town hall scheduled for Tuesday, August 6 starting at 4 p.m.
"Timber Road is an important connector between Highway 6 and Highway 26," an August 6 Washington County Board of Commissioners agenda item to award a bid reads. "Community members, the Banks Fire District, the Oregon Department of Forestry and Stimson Lumber have all expressed support for this proje
After abandoning a statewide "wildfire risk map" first published in 2022 and going back to the drawing board, a new draft map has been released to the public for input. In this part of Oregon, no properties are expected to be affected by defensible space or fire-hardening building codes because ther
Do you know what to do when an evacuation is issued in the Banks area? Find info on how to build a plan in this month's Banks Fire District log, along with stats from June.
A Killen pioneer (namesake of the Killen Wetlands) of near Banks passes, a young Gales Creek woman is robbed of a $65 watch and more in the news of a century ago.
The Washington County Fair opened Friday evening, drawing crowds to Hillsboro from all over the county and beyond.
The free event, running now through July 28 at what are now
Planes were grounded, hospitals cancelled surgeries, Starbucks mobile ordering was hit, and the city of Banks lost phone service: A global tech outage hit everyone on Friday.
Stub Stewart State Park is host to a variety of activities — disc golf, horseback riding, mountain biking, to name a few — and for one night on Saturday, July 20, the park will transform into a movie theater for a free showing of Director Nicolas Roeg's The Witches.
