Gov. Tina Kotek on Monday signed into law the sweeping measure the Oregon Legislature passed to combat the state’s fentanyl drug addiction and overdose crisis.
A private fish hatchery near Mountaindale provides 5,000 trout to a Gales Creek man, and an accused moonshiner takes his own life in this week's dispatches from history.
Deputies with the Washington County Sheriff's Office responded to a littering report Tuesday on Long Road between Verboort and Cornelius and found more than they bargained for.
The Jewell School District in the Clatsop State Forest predicts it could lose nearly $1 million in revenue if a plan to scale back logging is implemented.
After two weeks battling wildfires in Texas, a strike team sent by the Oregon Department of Forestry headed home—and were immediately replaced by a second team of Oregon firefighters, including two local firefighters based out of the Forest Grove District.
A century ago, the Banks American Legion had a membership drive, and the Gales Creek Stage meant there were better mass transit options in the valley than there are today.
The numbers are in from the "Scouting for Food" event held March 2 in Banks, and Banks Troop 581 Scoutmaster Cliff Cottam said cubs and scouts collected 564 pounds of food for donation to the Banks Community Food Bank.
