Centralia News

Neighbors against a 77-acre development in the Port of Centralia will have an opportunity to ask questions during a tentative meeting Wednesday, Sept.

The state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction released results from the spring Washington Assessment of Student Learning tests Tuesday.

The levy for the Centralia area fire department has failed. While the results of the primary election won't be final until next week, further counting of ballots on Tuesday only widened the margin between yes ...

The state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction released results from the spring Washington Assessment of Student Learning tests today, revealing solid improvements for most Lewis County schools.

Three people were injured in a two-car accident on Highway 603 two miles north of Winlock Monday.

They say every dog has its day. Now, every dog in Centralia has its own park as well.

Lightning has started hundreds of fires in Washington state, and some of the biggest are still raging.

Summer is winding down and the new school year is almost here. Classes at a few local school start next week, but the majority of districts will have kids back in the classroom on Tuesday, Sept.

A class action lawsuit was filed in King County Superior Court Thursday against a company that owns 15 Washington nursing home facilities, including one in Centralia.

A levy proposal by the Riverside Fire Authority was failing by an extremely slim margin Thursday, after the Lewis County Auditor's Office conducted an additional count of Tuesday's primary voting.

The State Patrol is helping the Lewis County sheriff's office investigate a bomb found near the TransAlta power plant at Centralia.

A homemade bomb was found upside down in a ditch along the train tracks which bring coal into TransAlta's power plant outside Centralia, prompting a call to a bomb squad on Wednesday.

It was a busy night for Kayo. Centralia Police's K-9 officer nabbed two suspected bad guys within one hour late Tuesday and early Wednesday.

A three-vehicle crash on U.S. Highway 12 near Rochester Tuesday evening totaled a van, sent three people to the hospital and shut down the road for several hours because of a sizable diesel spill.

Even as the fair was underway last week, a clock in the Southwest Washington Fair office was counting down the days, hours, and minutes until the opening of the 2009 fair.

Jerrimy and Shelley Clark of Elbe got goats about a year ago to keep their grass trimmed down, and quickly found themselves entering the world of showing animals at the fair.

THE DAILY WORLD Clinton J. Morgan, 28, of Centralia was declared a "sexually violent predator" by a jury last Thursday after a weeklong civil trial to involuntarily commit him to the Special Commitment Center ...

By The Chronicle An armed man described by police as despondent gave up without apparent incident after a standoff this morning at the Riverside Motel that shut down Harrison Avenue for about two hours.

Ask any parent -- equipping children to go back to school is an expensive endeavor.

The half-century-old old Vader School has been demolished. The school between Centralia and Longview was reduced to rubble last week after two years of levy and bond election failures.