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, ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

In 1976, 12-passenger vans began carrying Banks residents to Tektronix under a new rural transportation grant. On Highway 47 south of Banks, a 29-year-old woman was struck and killed — Washington ...