The Gales Creek Strawberry Festival is returning for a 55th year Saturday, June 14, the Gales Creek Community Club confirmed, ...

Thousands of Oregonians submitted letters opposing a Republican senator’s long-shot attempt to ask voters whether to repeal ...

The Oregon Department of Forestry dispatched a crew of 26 Oregon firefighters and two agency representatives to North ...

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A tree fell on Stringtown Road Thursday evening, taking electric lines with it, resulting in a road closure between Gales ...

A man living in rural Washington County was arrested on rape charges near Banks, and detectives say he allegedly assaulted ...

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.

The Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife will host a hunter safety course starting April 1 through April 24 in Banks. “Equip ...

Oil in Buxton. Moonshiners in Gales Creek. Banks was freshly a legal town. Timber had a West Timber. Welcome to 1925 in far ...

Oil in Buxton. Moonshiners in Gales Creek. Banks was freshly a legal town. Timber had a West Timber. Welcome to 1925 in far western Washington County. In this column, we take a look back one hundred ...