NWS issues Winter Weather Advisory for Gales Creek
February 4, 2025
The Portland office of the National Weather Service issued a Winter Weather Advisory for lower elevations in the region, including in Gales Creek.
Oregon Senator Ron Wyden will host a Washington County town hall Saturday, February 15 at 12 p.m. in Hillsboro.
“We’ve had a cluster of calls this evening throughout our response area and our crews have noticed that ice has began to form on roadways and walking areas,” Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said Sunday evening. One such crash was near downtown Gales Creek.
Oregon leaders were scrambling Tuesday morning after an announcement from the Trump administration that it was at least temporarily freezing many federal funds.
State budgets rely heavily on federal funding: In Oregon, they make up about 30% of the two-year budget — nearly $40 billion — with certain big-ticket programs, like Medicaid, receiving the biggest chunks of the funding.
A decision on a route from western Washington County to the coast hit a roadblock (heh) in 1925. This and more in the news of a century ago.
On Dec. 26, Dr. Robert Pamplin Jr., 83, settled a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Labor to resolve allegations he treated his company’s pension fund like a piggy bank, selling overvalued company real estate to unwitting pensioners.
The Gales Creek, Roy and Verboort CPO will meet in Banks Wednesday to hear from Forest Grove Fire & Rescue on how mutual aid agreements work.
Cal Mukumoto, the head of the Oregon Department of Forestry announced his resignation in a brief letter Thursday during a Board of Forestry meeting, noting his last day would be Jan. 23.
A century ago, an early version of what we know as Highway 6 today was slowly taking shape, but first: debates over the route took place.
The Oregon Department of Forestry is sending six strike teams of firefighters and equipment to California, on the heels of 12, then 15, strike teams dispatched by the Oregon State Fire Marshal Wednesday morning