Buffalo Creek News

Denver drug agents said Monday a major pot bust netted two arrests and 14,500 marijuana plants.

Sen. Ron Stollings and Del. Jeff Eldridge unveil sign renaming the Buffalo Creek Road to the Buffalo Creek Memorial Highway.

Sen. Ron Stollings and Del. Jeff Eldridge unveil sign renaming the Buffalo Creek Road to the Buffalo Creek Memorial Highway.

KISTLER, W.Va. -- A road in Logan County will be renamed to commemorate the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster, in which 125 people were killed.

KISTLER, W.Va. -- A road in Logan County will be renamed to commemorate the 1972 Buffalo Creek disaster, in which 125 people were killed.

Posted Sunday, July 5, 2009 ; 01:20 PM Post Comment Updated Sunday, July 5, 2009 ; 03:07 PM Wayne County 911 dispatchers say an aircraft apparently went down in the Buffalo Creek area.

A flash-flood warning is in effect until 5:15 p.m. for south-central Jefferson County and northeastern Park County.

The evacuation order for the Buffalo Creek area between Jones Road and Buffalo Creek Road has been downgraded to an evacuation alert, and the evacuation alert for the Forest Grove area has been rescinded.

Two houses have been destroyed and six more may be at risk in a wildfire that covered about 150 hectares at Buffalo Creek, about 10 kilometres northeast of 100 Mile House, Friday night.

The fire at Buffalo Creek, between Gateway and Forest Grove, northeast of 100 Mile House, continues to rage and the last estimate was that it involved 300 hectares.