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Yakima County, Wash. — The recent closure of Cow Palace Dairy Farm in Granger has left more than 100 employees facing ...

Can trees from warmer places withstand Western Washington's sogginess? Forestry workers are starting a trial to find out.

Woodbury County Attorney James Loomis filed a trial information charging Thomas Popp with first-degree murder for the ...

Dipnetting from the shore is allowed on the Cowlitz River from the Tennant Way Bridge upstream to the Al Helenberg Memorial Boat Ramp in Castle Rock, Fish and Wildlife reports. Popular dipnetting ...

Before a Vancouver man was sentenced Monday to 8½ years in prison, two Clark County judges spoke from the other side of the ...

Firefighters from Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue responded to a rail car fire late Tuesday night near the BNSF rail line at Talley ...

Workforce Southwest Washington has grants available to programs that support the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act's Adult & Dislocated Worker program in Clark, Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties.