A tree fell on Stringtown Road Thursday evening, taking electric lines with it, resulting in a road closure between Gales Creek Road and Ritchie Road, Washington County Land Use and Transportation ...

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.

The Oregon Department of Forestry dispatched a crew of 26 Oregon firefighters and two agency representatives to North ...

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 ...

The Forest Grove School District will receive $851,228 from revenues generated from leases and industry permitted on state ...

A man living in rural Washington County was arrested on rape charges near Banks, and detectives say he allegedly assaulted ...

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