Arlington News

The city has a goal to recycle or compost 60 percent of its waste by 2012. Seattle's 50-percent recycling rate is higher than the national average of about 32 percent.

Set amid wheeling seagulls that have found paradise 250 miles from the ocean, hydraulic tippers hoist truck containers and send thousands of pounds of Portland's garbage sliding into a never-ending pile.

The Baker City Herald reports the herd has grown from a low of 46 in 1997 to 65 counted this year, despite cougar predation and other factors.

After 11 years and more than $3 million, regulators say they're done with one of the Lower Valley's largest environmental cleanup jobs.

Call it wind on water or wave generation, and you have the makings of renewable electrical power on the Oregon coast in Tillamook County.

Janet Gwilym and Bing Tso are so good at recycling they can usually fit all the garbage created in a week by a family of four into a micro-size garbage can -- a container about the size most people tuck under ...

Metro, Portland's regional government, will terminate a 20-year waste hauling contract with a group that's selling its assets and ending its trucking operations.

Conserving capital in these uncertain times was the primary message the Board of Directors of BEO Bancorp cited as they voted not to pay a quarterly dividend for the fourth quarter of 2008.

Gilliam County Sheriff's deputies arrested a former Arlington School District deputy clerk on accusations of theft, forgery and official misconduct.