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.

Highway 6 has closed again after a new crack formed in the only lane still in operation near milepost 35. The highway is ...

L. J. Creps dies, poetry rings in the new year, and more snippets of life from western Washington County a century ago.