Scappoose News

After passing on the opportunity 37 years ago to get out of the business of regulating surface mines, the Columbia County commissioners voted last week to do just that.

Both new boot styles are modeled after the company's top-selling Highliner? boot.

Scappoose High School Junior Deniscia Herzberg is no stranger to the financial woes facing K-12 education.

One in three students in Oregon's high school class of 2008 failed to get a diploma, a much worse showing than the state previously reported.

Rent is paid through July for the 285 Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook county residents who were told that they would lose their Section 8 housing assistance on July 1. The Northwest Oregon Housing Authority board voted Thursday to use reserve revenue funds to pay for the residents' July assistance vouchers.

PAMPHLET PICKLE - This is one of several pamphlet varieties published by Northwest Publishing, a Portland company that has received an "F" grade from the Better Business Bureau and red flag from the South Columbia County Chamber of Commerce.

Ron Urban and Frank Weber of Scappoose unload food donated byGrocery Outlet into a Columbia Pacific Food Bank receptacle.

A St. Helens woman was treated for minor injuries after a two-vehicle accident closed Highway 30 west of Portland Saturday afternoon.

Pop icon Michael Jackson was preparing for a rehearsal with Michael Curry Design, a Scappoose-based production design company, just before he died Thursday afternoon.

HELPING HANDS - Jennifer Grenier of St. Helens volunteers at the Ford Foundation's final clean-up day on the Crown Zellerbach Linear Trail.

Hey, Oregonians: A U.S. Senator from Oklahoma -- a Republican, no less -- is questioning the validity of five of our federal stimulus projects.

St. Helens' love affair with softball will be further romanced this summer with the installation of field lighting at the two McCormick Park adult softball fields.

Close to two-dozen department heads sit around a table and discuss their budgeting priorities each spring: which county programs should be cut, and which programs should be saved? That's the way the beginning of Lincoln County's budgeting process works.

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Just looking at her, you'd hardly know Chelsee Caskey spent two months in the hospital, had to re-learn how to walk and is still healing from a stroke.

A Portland teenager struck by a hit-and-run driver during the annual Hood-to-Coast Relay race last year has graduated from high school.

Environmentalists favoring strict protection of the Metolius River got a big boost Friday when the Oregon Senate passed a contentious bill that would ban most development in the Metolius basin.

Ten months after a car hit her during a road race, Chelsee Caskey says she is "loving life." The tall, outgoing teen spent most of the year in a wheelchair or on crutches.

In a squeaker of a vote, the Oregon Senate approved a bill that prevents businesses from requiring workers to attend company-organized meetings about politics, including union organizing, and religion.

SETTING UP SHOP - Joe Oliver, owner of Joe's Auto, said business has been picking up as he settles into his new St.

Down revenues from less construction and a smaller state budget have forced local governments to tighten their own budgets.