Banks Mayor Marsha Kirk's plan to remove one of two applicants for a vacant council seat from consideration Tuesday night failed after the city council overturned her decision and chose the applicant Kirk had earlier removed, April Cannon.
Starting in July, Jordan Donegan, a Portland native and journalism student out of Fordham University will be joining the Banks Post to hone her skills as a journalist before her return to New York in the fall. While most of Donegan's work will be done in Forest Grove, you'll see her crop up from tim
Banks Mayor Marsha Kirk’s abrupt change to a process to fill a vacant city council seat in Banks has sparked controversy, leaving one applicant to wonder about the future of her own political career and Kirk to defend her decision.
In 1925, the life of Odie Wilmoth, a Banks youth, hung in the balance after a collision between a car driven by local farmer Francis Herb and the driver of a motorcycle, Ellis Edmundson.
In advance of Independence Day, the Oregon Department of Forestry is raising fire danger from low to moderate in areas in and around the Tillamook Forest, Timber, Buxton, and Manning.
Banks' Independence Day celebrations, from a free event held on the grounds of Sunset Park, races at Sunset Speedway to fireworks overhead that evening are sure to draw crowds.
The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is urging Oregonians to be vigilant in the face of a National Terrorism Advisory System (NTAS) Bulletin warning of a heightened threat environment amid the Israel-Iran war and U.S. airstrikes on Iran.
At 12:01 a.m. on Monday, June 23, fire season will begin in lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry in the Northwest Oregon Forest Protective Association (NWOFPA ), which includes areas in and near the Tillamook State Forest.
