Castle Rock News

Over 80 percent of Washington's more than 10-thousand known toxic sites have been cleaned up or are being cleaned up.

The kids are gone, the district's been absorbed and, now, even the building is being removed, one truck load at a time.

Twenty-eight years ago, I stood at the edge of the Toutle River, overwhelmed by the destruction.

The final remnant of the Vader School - the school building itself - is gone. Crews knocked down walls and reduced the school to a pile of rubble this week, capping two years of failed levies and bonds and the ...

The Cowlitz County Fair went to the dogs Thursday. On day two of the four-day event, the fair held its first Dogapalooza, featuring entertainment, clothing, gourmet food and toys for canines.

A brush fire south of Castle Rock that grew to nearly three acres brought northbound traffic on Interstate 5 to a crawl and shut down Exit 46 at Headquarters Road early Sunday evening.

The suspect in Tuesday's armed robbery of Big Town Hero in Longview was cornered by police after a nearly four-hour search in woods along the Cowlitz River west of Castle Rock.

The long-awaited boat launch here is still at least a year away, officials said recently.

A 9-year-old Mossy Rock boy was killed Saturday morning when the dump truck he was riding in with his father toppled off a Weyerhaeuser logging road, authorities said.

Plans for a trail extending south of Castle Rock are getting more ambitious. In May, The Cowlitz County Trails Committee and Cowlitz on the Move unveiled a proposal for a 13-mile loop connecting Castle Rock and ...

Plans for a trail extending south of Castle Rock are getting more ambitious. In May, The Cowlitz County Trails Committee and Cowlitz on the Move unveiled a proposal for a 13-mile loop connecting Castle Rock and ...

A Kelso man severely injured in a motorcycle wreck last week has been moved out of intensive care but is expected to remain hospitalized for three or four months, his family said Monday.

In an effort to connect a dead-end road into the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument with U.S. Highway 12, a Toutle business owner is again talking with local governments and conservationist groups ...

Longview,WA,USA A Portland entrepreneur has resolved a potentially costly dispute with Cowlitz County over his yet-to-open RV park north of Castle Rock.

A Spanaway family's long wait for their missing son has come to a tragic end, and investigators believe the man died at the hands of his own friend.

Officials believe they've solved half of a Cowlitz County mystery that began when the remains of two men were discovered in one day last week.

"It's heart wrenching to see this happen," Sgt. Lynne Benton with the Gladstone Police Department said.

A police chase that started Wednesday morning near Kent and ended at the Emerald Queen Casino in Tacoma resulted in one arrest and the seizure... A police chase that started Wednesday morning near Kent and ...

A worker discovered the body of a possible homicide victim about 10:40 a.m. today near Castle Rock, the Cowlitz County Sheriff's Office said.

Two bodies have been found in Cowlitz County in what sheriff's deputies say appear to be unrelated cases.