You’ll soon be getting more news coverage, faster, and more consistently — because we’re merging the Gales Creek Journal with News in the Grove.

Chas Hundley is the editor of the Gales Creek Journal and sister news publications the Banks Post and the Salmonberry Magazine. He grew up in Gales Creek and has a cat.

A trailer was destroyed early Wednesday morning at a vineyard in Gales Creek, along with lumber being used to build a new home. According to Forest Grove Fire & Rescue spokesperson David Nemeyer, no ...

The annual Washington County Fair is set to return to Hillsboro, offering guests 10 days of free admission, family fun, live entertainment, animals, carnival rides and fair food. Opening on July 18 ...

It’s a snow day for students who attend schools in the Forest Grove School District. “Out of an abundance of caution due to weather conditions that are steadily progressing northward, we are ...

In this column, we take a look back one hundred years ago in western Washington County. This week, the clips come from the Washington County News-Times published October 4, 1923. Want more local ...

2:30 p.m. Update: Firefighters resumed putting out hot spots after Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, which serves as a regional Hazmat team when needed, deemed the area safe. “Our crews are treating the ...

A quarter-acre field fire off of Stringtown Road near Carpenter Creek Road was extinguished Wednesday morning, Forest Grove Fire & Rescue said. As of about 9:30 a.m., firefighters were still on scene ...

Following years of planning, tense negotiations and heated public comment, a landmark plan to reduce logging in Oregon’s western state forests to protect threatened species is nearing the finish line.

A Red Flag Warning issued Tuesday afternoon will be effective starting 5 p.m. Tuesday and extending through 8 a.m. Wednesday due to a chance of thunderstorms in much of Oregon east of the Coast Range.

Mid-90s temperatures, winds and a dry grass field near the intersection of NW Thatcher Road and NW Kemper Road needed just one thing to go up in flames: a spark. According to Forest Grove Fire & ...