Toledo, according to the local Lions Club’s 2023 Cheese Days magazine, is a town with many historic names: Plomondon’s Landing in the 1840s, Warbassport in the 1850s, Cowlitz Landing …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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7/3/23
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The City of Tenino will be celebrating its 150th birthday on July 8 and city officials have organized a sesquicentennial jubilee. It is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. and end at 7 p.m. according to a …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/3/23
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Burnt Ridge Nursery in Onalaska is open for drop-in browsing during the summer, according to a news release, and those who are looking for some expertise to go with their new plants are in luck. …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/3/23
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Rene Remund grew up in the Boistfort Valley.
The unincorporated, West Lewis County community of a few hundred people is nearly all farmland. There is a river, grange hall, store, fire …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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7/3/23
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For the second consecutive year, the Retro Rainier Independence Day celebration at Wilkowski Park in Rainier created an environment where community members could gather to celebrate Independence Day.
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By Jacob Dimond / For The Chronicle
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7/3/23
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Residents in Skamania County were ordered to evacuate after a wildfire in Skamania County reached 125 acres, according to the Washington State Department of Natural Resources.
The fire began …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/3/23
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The 65-year-old man who died at the scene of a single-vehicle wreck early Thursday morning has been identified, according to the Washington State Patrol and the Thurston County Coroner's Office.
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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7/3/23
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Fred Wimmer and Chris Stephensen were recently out in the Australian bush on a metal detecting trip when they came across a dog tag with the name of Thomas F. Jenkins, from Battle Ground.
Wimmer …
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Cade Barker / cade@thereflector.com
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7/2/23
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Starting at 8:30 a.m. on Sunday, July 2, runners and walkers participated in the Mossyrock Independence Day 5K and 8K Walk and Run starting near the Mossyrock Dam.
Those participating had the …
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7/2/23
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Grays Harbor County settled out of court in a wrongful death suit centered around an inmate who died by suicide while detained in the county jail in early 2021.
Andrew Clark, 33, was found …
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By Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World
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7/2/23
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A man fatally shot by police after firing at them in a Vancouver Safeway parking lot in May was carrying a 9mm handgun and a handwritten robbery note and had a wig, burglary tools and a pipe bomb in …
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Catalina Gaitán / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/2/23
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A 34-year-old Las Vegas man convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in coins after being caught in Vancouver was sentenced to four years in federal prison.
Richard Anthony Pena …
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Austin De Dios / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/2/23
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A Beaverton man died after falling from a hiking trail near Multnomah Falls on Saturday afternoon, authorities said.
The man, who has not been identified, was half a mile up the trail from …
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Austin De Dios / oregonlive.com / (TNS)
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7/2/23
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OLYMPIA — More than 100 new laws will take effect in Washington this month, including changes to drug possession laws, protections for transgender minors and the declaration of a state …
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Ellen Dennis / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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7/2/23
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Washington state will pay $13.35 million to settle a lawsuit alleging a developmentally disabled man suffered decades of abuse and neglect, living in a moldy shack on the rat-infested property of a …
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Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/2/23
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A 12-year-old girl was abducted and released a short time later Thursday night west of Spokane, according to the Spokane County Sheriff's Office.
Deputies and Spokane police officers …
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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7/2/23
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A King County Superior Court judge sentenced the man whose killing of another young man inside the Capitol Hill Organized Protest zone three years ago brought intense scrutiny to first responders for …
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Daisy Zavala Magaña / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/2/23
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Attention fruit lovers: A new breed of apple is on the way.
Researchers from Washington State University Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center hosted a field day May 24 and invited growers to …
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Gabriel Garcia / The Wenatchee World (TNS)
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7/2/23
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