Gales Creek resident Neal Hammond was set to take his seat on the Forest Grove Rural Fire Protection District Board Wednesday ...

In advance of Independence Day, the Oregon Department of Forestry is raising fire danger from low to moderate in areas in and ...

The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is urging Oregonians to be vigilant in the face of a National Terrorism ...

At 12:01 a.m. on Monday, June 23, fire season will begin in lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry in the ...

The Washington County Elections Division released the certified election results on Tuesday from the May 20 special district ...

I’m Chas Hundley, the founder of the Gales Creek Journal. I grew up in Gales Creek at the Gales Creek Country Store and then on Highway 6, and I plan to spend my entire journalism career here. I hope ...

Highway 6 is closed east of Tillamook due to a fatal crash, the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Office said Friday morning. According to a social media post made just before 8 a.m., the sheriff’s office ...

Both lanes of Highway 6 at milepost 35 are fully open, a spokesperson for the Oregon Department of Transportation said in an email to this newspaper at 3:45 p.m. The agency had scrambled a repair team ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry sent a strike team of 16 firefighters and five engines to Amarillo, Texas Friday to aid the state’s firefighters as they grapple with massive wildfires. Firefighters ...