Kelso News

Contractor Granite Northwest of Camas earlier this week wrapped up a $15 million improvement project on Interstate 5 between north Kelso and Castle Rock.

A 22-year-old Kelso man has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for attacking a Longview man and setting fire to his home over a $10 debt.

A JEWEL in Scotland's musical crown will entertain Kelso Music Society tomorrow night.

A youth football league will have to cover about $5,000 worth of damage after vandals broke into a football equipment storage facility.

A GALASHIELS director scooped a Scottish Bafta for his first feature film at the weekend.

Kelso and Longview share a Chamber of Commerce and a telephone directory. Washington State Highway 4 is the main traffic artery for both Cowlitz County towns along the Columbia River.

Students at a local high school were part of a landmark study showing it's possible to recruit teens into a stop-smoking program and significantly improve their quit rates.

Darren McLeod may have taken the search for cell phone service to new heights on Oct.

The steady drumbeat of opposition to Initiative 1033 that finally began a noticeable rhythm earlier this month continues to get louder.

DS Flooding of this home's first floor also wrecked its existing AV, which turned into a good excuse to upgrade everything.

Woodland police made an arrest in an arson case they have been investigating since April.

Howard Meharg doesn't know how to slow down. After retiring a few years ago from teaching choral music in schools in Castle Rock, Kelso and Longview, Meharg and his wife, Karen, moved to Vancouver.

It's not every day that jurors are given the chance to tour a crime scene. But when it's one floor below the trial courtroom, why not? On the second day of Gerard Gray's trial, jurors filed out of Clark County Superior Court Judge Robert Harris' fifth-floor courtroom and were taken downstairs to the courtroom of Superior Court Judge Roger Bennett.

Gerard Gray tears up while his girlfriend and her daughter speak to the judge on his behalf during a sentencing hearing in Clark County Superior Court in August 2008.

An assault conviction stemming from a fight in which a Cowlitz County jail inmate's ear was bitten off has been reversed by the Washington Supreme Court.

For most, the first day of school is a few days off. But doing a bit of homework this week could make your travel on the last few days of summer just a bit more enjoyable.

KELSO, Wash. A woman pushing the wheelchair said loose dogs caused a Cowlitz County man in his wheelchair to roll toward his death.

The Cowlitz County sheriff's office says a Kelso man died from falling out of his wheelchair after he was harassed by neighborhood dogs.

Carolyn Faltysek and her family and friends. Originally published August 25, 2009 at 9:12 p.m., updated August 26, 2009 at 9:42 a.m. After visiting relatives in San Diego, Calif.

A Qwest Communications spokesman says work crews have repaired a severed fiber-optic line in Ridgefield, Wash.