Eighteen Oregon agencies participated in the week-long training. It started with a day of classroom work, followed by four days of work in area rivers.

The third retrieval – the most complex – involved a rescue in the water itself. One of the firefighters climbed into the lake ...

For anyone heading to the back country, be careful out there. Coralie Nairn, with Vernon Search and Rescue, warns there is an “extreme avalanche hazard right now” in the region.

Bristol Community College has started training people to work in offshore wind farms. But will it have a place under ...

Lucy Holmes has been a coastguard for about two years, and works at the Brixham Marina. She said she became a coastguard ...