Cornelius News

Where : Group will meet at Fred Meyer, 2200 Baseline St., for job assignments. Free lunch for volunteers will be served at 12 p.m. at Harleman Park, 795 S. Heather St.

Cornelius residents will likely see some utility rates increase by 8 percent in the city's 2013-14 fiscal year, which begins in July.

For two decades, the Tigard Area Farmers Market has been offering fresh produce and other must-have foods to shoppers.

BIRDS & BEES: If you haven't discovered it yet, Birds & Bees Nursery in Southeast Portland just celebrated its first anniversary.

Susan Davis grew up admiring hot rods she couldn't afford. In the early 1970s, though, Davis and her husband fell in love with a baby blue 1957 Thunderbird - the first of more than 180 cars they'd buy together.

The Cornelius Police Department might contract with the Washington County Sheriff's Office , a move Interim Chief Ken Summers says would be cost effective and provide city residents better service.

Four people were injured Tuesday during a crash between a van, truck and TriMet bus the 3800 block of Baseline Street.

Firefighters said about 20 people were inside this home when the fire started Saturday evening.

A two-alarm fire destroyed the interior of a log-cabin style home about 2 miles south of Cornelius on Saturday evening.

Hundreds of books and CDs will be for sale for $1 each or less at the Cornelius Friends of the Library book sale Thursday.

"Once upon a time," reads Nuru Adija from her Cinderella story while her third-grade class sits restless on the bare floor at the Virginia Garcia Wellness Center.

The first, in the Cornelius Rural Fire Protection District, came in just before 2:00 pm when a heat lamp in a chicken coop ignited the structure.

The new joint Forest Grove/Cornelius Chamber of Commerce was approved by the Forest Grove Chamber of Commerce at its March 25 board meeting.

Just before 3 p.m., a Cornelius man told deputies he found the bomb in a field near Southwest Clark Hill Road and Southwest Long Road.