The Oregon Department of Forestry closed the North Fork Wolf Creek Shooting Lanes in the Tillamook State Forest this week to tackle maintenance and fire prevention work at the site. The closure is ...

Oregon’s countryside comes alive during farm season. Tulips in the spring, berry-picking in the summer and pumpkin patches in the fall attract visitors to the bucolic farm stands that dot the ...

A 1 1/2 acre wildfire that ignited over the weekend near the Four County Point area outside of Timber was “connected to target shooting activity,” Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) officials said.

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 ...

Good evening, Gales Creek! We are working on stabilizing our newsletter schedule. There are some pretty significant backend changes happening at the Gales Creek Journal and our sister publication the ...

As Gov. Tina Kotek works the phones in an effort to stave off hundreds of layoffs at the Oregon Department of Transportation July 31, the lists of proposed layoffs and elimination of unfilled ...

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.

Friday, 4:45 p.m. update: A full day after the road closed, Stringtown Road reopened, Washington County said. A tree fell on Stringtown Road Thursday evening, taking electric lines with it, resulting ...

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.

A fallen tree and downed power lines blocking Parson Road have finally been cleared and the road is open, according to Washington County Land Use and Transportation. The road was closed Monday after ...

It’s a snow day for students who attend schools in the Forest Grove School District. “Out of an abundance of caution due to weather conditions that are steadily progressing northward, we are ...