Longview News

Thursday, a former nanny was sentenced to more than 8 years in prison for the death of a nine-month-old baby that was in her care in 2011.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers must undertake a comprehensive, region-wide study of all possible impacts of three remaining proposals to export coal from Wyoming and Montana out of Northwest ports to China, public health and environmental groups said Wednesday in a petition filed with the Corps.

A Bellingham man has reached the top of Mount Everest, achieving his quest to climb the highest peaks on seven continents.

The push for mass coal exports from Washington state, already facing a huge environmental battle, also could get hit with slowing Chinese demand for coal shipments.

A 26-year-old man was watching TV downstairs in his parents' Longview, Wash., home when two pit bulls he'd never seen before entered the home through a sliding glass door left open on a sunny morning.

A Seattle man trying to dribble a soccer ball 10,000 miles to Brazil in time for the 2014 World Cup died Tuesday after being hit by a pickup truck on the Oregon Coast.

A nurse at a Longview, Wash., hospital got a scare after he was stuck by a syringe belonging to an alleged drug user who says she has hepatitis C, the Daily News reports.

LONGVIEW, Wash. After 8-year-old Noah Waite-Brown died in a car crash along with his father last month, his family decided to donate his organs.

WINLOCK, Wash. Detectives are combing an area near Winlock, Wash. after several tips that a missing teen's body was thrown down a well on the property.

The Pacific Northwest is no longer as big a target for global energy companies looking to export coal from the West Coast to energy-hungry China and other countries.

A proposed coal export site along the Columbia River in Oregon, which would have brought long coal trains through Portland, was abandoned on Wednesday by the Houston-based company that proposed to build it.

"We looked at multiple options and different footprints, but we couldn't find one compatible with the facility we wanted to construct," Fore said.

A proposed deal on a Montana coal mine that supporters said would boost Asian exports of the fuel via the West Coast has stalled, according to court documents that show the companies involved are renegotiating terms of the sale.

Columbia Grain locked out union workers this weekend in the newest development in a labor dispute that's been festering since long before the contract expired between the grain terminals and International Longshore and Warehouse Union.

A grandmother in the Rose Valley area near Longview, Wash., told police Thursday that her granddaughter has been communicating on Facebook with someone claiming to be teen idol Justin Bieber, The Daily News reports.

Detroit, about an hour east of Salem off Highway 22, is nearing full pool. It is on the schedule to get 10,000 keeper-size rainbow trout.