Longview News

LONGVIEW, Wash ... Three kids, all under the age of 14, made a grizzly discovery while celebrating Father's Day and a birthday over the weekend.

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.

The Olympia City Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to pass a resolution opposing the construction of coal export facilities in the Northwest.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has decided on a limited review of environmental effects for a proposed coal port at Bellingham.

PRESS RELEASE: Washington, D.C. Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and Climate Solutions Policy Director and Power Past Coal representative KC Golden testified at a congressional hearing on the environmental, health and economic impacts from coal exports.

A Boone inspector says a hotel pool heater that leaked carbon monoxide and killed a Washington state couple and later a South Carolina boy was installed without the knowledge of the town's inspection department.

Brookfield's Longview Fibre Paper and Packaging operations include a large paper mill in Longview, Washington and seven container plants in the region that produce Kraft paper, container board and corrugated boxes.

Carbon monoxide found at the Best Western Hotel in Boone where a York County boy died over the weekend -- in the same room where a Washington couple died two months ago.

Coast Guard Sector Columbia River responded to five recent suspected hoax distress calls made from April 28 - June 1, 2013 near Portland, Ore.

A Longview, Wash., couple who stayed in the same hotel room as a recently deceased 11-year-old North Carolina boy was also exposed to carbon monoxide poisoning, according to the Boone Police Department.

Tom and Patsy both grew up in small towns just down river from Longview, Wash. Tom was born in Chehalis and attended school in Cathlamet, while Patsy hailed from Skamokawa.

The release of energy-related carbon dioxide into the atmosphere rose 1.4 percent in 2012 to 31.6 billion tons, with a dire prediction from the International Energy Agency that the Earth's temperatures could ruse as much as 9 degrees Fahrenheit from pre-industrial levels.

A 56-year-old man was taken to the hospital after extinguishing a fire in his Longview, Wash., home Saturday night, according to Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue .

Why aren't our state's elected officials doing more to promote and enhance the single-largest economic driver of our state's economy? A recent report from the Washington Council on International Trade and the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle found that 40 percent of all jobs in Washington are tied to trade.

Effective Saturday May 25 through June 15 spring Chinook angling is open from the Tongue Point/Rocky Point line upstream to Beacon Rock, plus the banks only from Beacon Rock to Bonneville Dam.

The Audubon Society got a call on May 13 about a 3-foot-tall eagle in Longview, Wash.

It took martial arts school owner Michael Evans a while to coax Jerry Newcomb to take a rather giant leap.

Coal trains could help the Northwest's economy but harm its environment, the Columbia Basin Badger Club heard Friday as speakers pro and con faced off in Richland.

Since December, 967 households have been served, with an average assistance of $370 per household, according to Roxana Shelton, CAP's Energy Assistance Coordinator.

Police say dispatchers received calls about 5 a.m. from neighbors reporting a fight and then the sound of gunshots.