Parkdale News

The Hood River County Library will reduce hours at three facilities on July 1 due to a major cut in its operating budget.

A brief guide By KIRBY NEUMANN-REA News editor Summer is here, and it's more than just lemonade and lawn-mowing. Fun events and activities will be available aplenty in June and July in Hood River County.

Michiko Kiyokawa was a typical freshman in 1942, taking biology and playing field hockey, when she was forced to leave college during the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II.This Sunday, more than six decades later, Kiyokawa will return to the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma to receive an honorary degree."It's an honor," the ...

MILWAUKIE, Ore. Six days a week, Mark Matthews rises at 5 a.m. After a quick shower and a cup of coffee, he braces himself for another 16- to 18-hour workday of, not only swinging his hammer, but constantly scanning the horizon for work opportunities, "bidding like crazy," and hustling just to keep his once prosperous company, Pacificmark ...

With one week to go until the deadline, just two new names are on the May 19 ballot list for open positions with the largest public agencies in the county.

Carol Birdsell asks her students to look at a work by Gustav Klimt, in an art class at Cascade Locks High School.

's library Wednesday evening were bitterly disappointed when the school board voted 5-1 in favor of busing Cascade Locks high school students to Hood River Valley High School , beginning this fall.

NORCOR Interim Director Laura Pryor redrew 'fuzzy' lines of authority to resolve employee complaints.

A major highway was closed Wednesday in Oregon as a winter storm sent heavy rain and high winds into the Northwest.

A women and two teens died Friday night when the car they were in slid on black ice and crashed into an oncoming vehicle on Highway 35 south of Hood River.