Free Fishing Weekend will return to Oregon on Saturday and Sunday, February 18 and 19 (Presidents Day Weekend), the first of three such Free Fishing Weekends scheduled to be held in 2023.
Gov. Tina Kotek is recommending that the internal watchdog for Oregons prison system take over as interim director of the states liquor agency as it reels from a bourbon hoarding scandal.�
The Washington County Board of Commissioners will host the first of four quarterly county Town Halls scheduled this year Thursday, February 23, focusing on the countys budget development process and financial challenges facing the county.�
Oregon Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum is launching a criminal investigation into state liquor regulators who diverted rare whiskeys for their own use.�
Details were scarce following an incident that closed Oak Grove Academy, housed in the old Gales Creek Elementary School, but the school district said damage was done to windows and doors following an incident with a student.
The Oregon Department of Transportation is hosting an in-person and an online open house regarding the safety study of the Highway 6 corridor mandated by the Oregon Legislature in 2022.
Bert Pixler kills a sick cow and Bill Hundley kills his riding pony on the same day in Fir Creek: "An unlucky day," writes a 1923 journalist. This and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
The grant, expected to be submitted by the county's Land Use and Transportation department, would ask the United States Department of Transportation for funding to replace two culverts on White Creek, a small, historically fish-bearing stream that enters Gales Creek just south of the Highway 6 and 8
A bear scratches a Gales Creek man, snow closes the mill in West Timber, an 80 acre farm in Buxton goes up for sale and more in this week's edition of Dispatches from History, chronicling 1923 in Gales Creek, Banks, and beyond.
Washington County announced the appointment of Mjere Simantel as the new director of Washington County Health and Human Services Thursday, January 19.�
Since Nov. 7, Brian Stout, R-Columbia City, has been subject to a five-year order of protection from a former campaign volunteer who reported that he had sexually assaulted her and threatened her life. A Columbia County judge will continue hearing arguments over whether the order should remain in pl
