A town hall for Washington County residents to meet with Oregon's junior Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Ore., will be held in Beaverton ...

Former Banks High School teacher Wymon Wayne Smith, 67, pleaded guilty to two sexual abuse counts Wednesday morning and was ...

Balm Grove sold, a 1926 map of Washington County, a 10-year fishing ban announced, a man falls off a train near Timber and ...

Former Banks High School teacher in court, Highway 6 emergency, 2026 roadwork in Banks and more in this week's newsletter.

A dream of a highway connecting Forest Grove to Tillamook continued. Dilley and Gales Creek feuded over flowers. Bacona, ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s census data shows a 10% decline— about a million acres—in land used to grow crops in ...

From a bridge replacement to a roundabout to new light poles, here are just a few of the things that you'll complain about in ...

Wymon Smith, a former Banks High School teacher arrested twice in 2025 on sex abuse charges, is expected in court Jan. 13 for ...

Federal agents reportedly shot and injured two people in east Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the Portland ...

Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek spent months cajoling the state Legislature to provide billions for transportation infrastructure, ...

With no long-term fix in sight for the crumbling Highway 6, county leaders declared an emergency Tuesday morning, asking the ...

Some of the biggest, strangest, or just most impactful stories we wrote in the Banks and Forest Grove areas last year.