A truck driver was handed a $20,256 fine Thursday morning at the scales on Highway 26 near the Highway 6 junction east of Banks for an unpermitted heavy load.
Pox sweeps through the lower Gales Creek Valley and it's strawberry season in Hayward: This and much more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
Have you ever lost important paperwork? Despite 150 years of maintenance, Washington County can't locate proof that about 3/4 of a mile of Harrington Road east of Roy is, in fact, a county road.
Remember last year's excavator chase near Buxton? Well, the same guy was arrested yesterday after leading police on another chase, on foot, this time into a ravine.
At least four people are dead in Washington County in the last five days. "Users are warned that there may be a batch of fentanyl circulating the street that is particularly dangerous to use," the sheriff's office said.
