The Gales Creek Strawberry Festival is back for its 55th year—featuring strawberries, live music, 50+ vendors, and new this ...

A Banks wedding, an account of a damaging cloudburst, and a forecast for a bumper strawberry crop from 1925 in Banks.

Fishing, crabbing, clamming are free this weekend, and a free Hagg Lake—freshly stocked with trophy-size trout—event will ...

The city of Banks says an uptick in pet poop in parks has prompted their plea to “please pick up after your pets.” Complaints about pet owners leaving behind their pet’s poop are on the rise, the city ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry deployed 22 firefighters Friday to Canada and three states in what the agency said would be ...

Manning residents in 2023. Cherry Grove residents in 2024. Areas less than two miles from Gales Creek in 2022. Evacuations in ...

Banks Fire District Defensible Space Coordinator Capt. Scott Arlin will host the Oregon State Fire Marshal, Washington County ...

Oil in Buxton. Moonshiners in Gales Creek. Banks was freshly a legal town. Timber had a West Timber. Welcome to 1925 in far western Washington County. In this column, we take a look back one hundred ...