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General contractor Wayne Mayo of Scappoose wrote two anti-illegal immigrant ballot measures.

Police are investigating a reported assault outside a Longview casino as a hate crime.

The waterfront district in historic Olde Towne St. Helens is one of the areas city councilors are considering for an urban renewal district.

Evil clowns were among the hundreds of zombies that marched through downtown Portland during World Zombie Day.

Jerusha Costello, wearing long black gloves, and Christy Yeoumans, dressed as a bride, perform the dance from "Thriller" next to hundreds of other zombies in Pioneer Courthouse Square in downtown Portland.

Last winter in Oregon was one for the record books. It started in December with the worst coastal storm the region has seen in a dozen years, which brought 70-foot ocean waves, wind gusts in excess of 130 miles ...

Scappoose School Board member Sarah Havlik and volunteer Karen Kessi talk to voters about the school bond at the Oct.

Doctors' fees - After a House hearing, it's clear the state will have to fix a contentious dispute about provider payments Monday, September 22, 2008 ANNE SAKER The Oregonian Staff SALEM -- By the end of the ...

Speaker Jeff Merkley and Rep. Brad Witt visit with Scappoose Farmers Market manager, Bill Blank of Scappoose.

I got a late start on summer because I did not make my annual batch of barbecue sauce until this week.

Rising unhappiness over a change in a workers' compensation rule that governs how much doctors are paid for treating injured workers has prompted state officials to schedule not one but two public hearings on ...

State geologists teamed with the Civil Air Patrol over the weekend on reconnaissance flights around Mount Hood, a dual mission to study landslides on the volcano's unstable slopes and train for possible future ...

    AN EXCAVATOR WAS TRAPPED IN MUD at the Beaver Boat Launch in Clatskanie during the construction of the boat launch improvements on Tuesday, Aug. 12.

    With the tide out, crew members of the RC Landworks, Inc. of Damascas, were digging in a mud hole when the excavator suddenly started to sink. As the tide came in, the piece of machinery became stuck in the mud. A replacement excavator was coming from Portland and a tow truck was scheduled to pull out the damaged excavator at low tide around 7 p.m. Tuesday.

    About a dozen downtown Clatskanie property owners, plus several other interested persons met Monday evening, Aug. 4, with Louise Solliday, director of the Oregon Department of State Lands (DSL); State Senator Betsy Johnson, State Representative Brad Witt, and Columbia County Commission Chair Tony Hyde.

    Discussion at the meeting was on the topic of the DSL's demands that the owners of six downtown properties - plus the city of Clatskanie - pay leases on property that is part of the Isaac Waggoner and E.S. Bryant Donation Land Claims (DLC).

Jim Works of Many Friends Farm displays the farm's produce at the Scappoose Farmers Market.

Wednesday Seeing the shore Explore the Shore will visit the tideflats near Charleston from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday.

Forget those new, shiny scooters that promise astronomically high gas mileage in trying economic times.

A wildfire closed down Highway 30 Monday. Fires Monday along Highway 30 near the small community of Goble were started by sparks from a flatbed truck driving on a rear wheel rim after a blow-out. The truck ...

A fire over an approximate one mile stretch of Highway 30 about seven miles west of St.

A fire over an approximate one mile stretch of Highway 30 about seven miles west of St.