Engine 15 and three Banks firefighters joined a Washington County task force headed for the 15,799-acre Hagen Fire in ...

The open seats are the mayor's post, a two-year term currently held by Marsha Kirk, and council Positions CC1, CC3 and CC5 — four-year terms held by Stephanie Jones, Niki Walters and Pearcia Bogroff, ...

The eastern and central Tillamook Forest, including Banks, Gales Creek and rural Forest Grove, moved to high fire danger ...

A lightning storm early Thursday knocked out power to thousands across rural western Washington County, sparked a fire at a ...

In 1976, Banks' Ann Marie Duyck married William Schmidt at Roy, the Banks High class of 1966 planned its 10-year reunion, and ...

A new management plan for Oregon’s western state-owned forests is one of two recent plans the Board of Forestry approved to boost conservation and reduce logging ...

A breakdown of June police calls by category and year-over-year statistics, as delivered to the Banks City Council meeting in ...

Fire crews from six agencies knocked down two brush fires along the Wilson River Highway near the summit in about 20 minutes Tuesday afternoon, holding them to about an acre before they could spread ...

Crews from Banks Fire and Gaston Fire are in eastern Oregon this week, part of a Washington County task force protecting ...

State fire agencies and Oregon's three largest electric utilities are pushing residents to prepare for what forecasters expect could be an earlier and hotter wildfire season, citing a record-low ...

Washington County Auditor Kristine Adams-Wannberg and District Attorney Kevin Barton are headed to another four-year term in their respective offices, both running unopposed in Tuesday's primary.

People suspected of stealing from Washington County retailers will now be arrested and booked into the county jail rather than cited and released, under a new countywide policy announced July 16 by ...