Western Washington County voters will have two questions on their ballots. The Washington County Sheriff's Office and the county's library system are each seeking replacement levies that will increase property taxes.
"In the month of September 2025, we serviced 1,856 calls total," writes the Forest Grove Police Department in this month's roundup of stats from September 2025. Read more inside.
A Garibaldi woman is dead after a Washington driver drove into oncoming traffic on Highway 6 just west of the Washington and Tillamook County line Friday, Oregon State Police said.
The Forest Grove School District will not fire a Neil Armstrong Middle School teacher following his social media remarks after the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
Think your cell coverage is bad? A century ago, "every telephone in Forest Grove was put out of commission" after a freak trolley accident. This and more in the news of a century ago.
The Forest Grove School Board met Tuesday, Sept. 23, beginning with an update to the public about a NAMS teacher under investigation. Later, the board unanimously approved a three-year contract between the district and the Forest Grove Education Association.
Lyle Spiesschaert is setting aside about 25 acres of his family farm with a vision of a heritage center and event space celebrating and honoring rural western Washington County's agricultural industry and the community's history.
A woman was shot Sunday and remains in the hospital. "It does not appear to be self inflicted," Forest Grove Police Department Sergeant Andrew Colasurdo said in an email to News in the Grove Monday morning.
The driver of a flatbed truck was flown by Life Flight helicopter to a trauma center with serious injuries after emergency crews carried them up the embankment of an irrigation ditch, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said.
