The move comes after labor officials found Pamplin, who owned the Forest Grove News-Times and other area newspapers until ...

Washington County is closing in on a years-long quest to replace two culverts on White Creek, a small tributary to Gales ...

Timber Road has reopened more than two years after a landslide closed the route linking Highway 6, Timber, and Highway 26.

Less than two months after Gov. Tina Kotek told the Oregon Driver & Motor Vehicle Services division it could resume automatic voter registration, the agency has disclosed it has discovered an ...

Oil in Buxton. Moonshiners in Gales Creek. Banks was freshly a legal town. Timber had a West Timber. Welcome to 1925 in far western Washington County. In this column, we take a look back one hundred ...

Chas Hundley is the editor of the Gales Creek Journal and sister news publications the Banks Post and the Salmonberry Magazine. He grew up in Gales Creek and has a cat.

Firefighters deployed from Oregon to North Carolina to help fight wildfires have mostly returned, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) said. As of Wednesday, four ODF staff remained to help close ...

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office released the names of four people found dead Tuesday afternoon in a Cornelius home. Detectives with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit ...

Between 300 and 400 protesters gathered at Forest Grove’s giant flag Saturday afternoon as part of the nationwide “Hands Off” protest against President Donald Trump and billionaire tech CEO Elon Musk, ...

Gales Creek’s Dorman Pond will receive the pond’s second shipment of trout in 2025 at some point next week. 1,000 legal-size rainbow trout are scheduled to be deposited into the pond just west of the ...

The May 20 Special District Elections will determine who sits on school, fire, and other local boards for the next few years, and the Washington County Elections Division is reminding would-be voters ...