Rainier News

Only fruit growers and their lucky friends get to enjoy the sublime flavors of succulent, tree-ripened fruit.

Oregon State Police and a drug-detection dog seized approximately 13 pounds of marijuana concealed in a vehicle during a Friday afternoon traffic stop on Interstate 5 in the Ashland area.

A 44-year-old Columbia County man died following a single-vehicle ATV crash near Rainier Friday night.

Animal control officials removed 26 dogs from "bad conditions" at a home in Columiba County after the homeowner herself asked for help, police said Monday.

Twenty-six dogs, a filthy collection of border collie and husky mixes, were removed Thursday from a rural Columbia County home where an animal control officer discovered "the worst conditions" he had ever seen.

There's quite an ugly little mess developing around "urban renewal" in Rainier, Oregon .

A Longview couple was told they could not provide childcare in the state of Washington anymore so what do they do? They hop across the Columbia River and open up shop in Oregon.

Diana Andersen, owner of Ruby Ranch Cookhouse, located off Highway 30 in Warren, reports that her customers have raised $570 so far for a Warren family displaced by fire in mid-March. Eric Coberly, Jennifer VanDolah and their four young children, ages 1 to 8, narrowly escaped the fire, which started around 8 p.m. Thursday, March 19, and totally ...

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal likely never had the chance to meet Reid Blackburn. If Jindal had, he wouldn't have derided the federal money being spent to monitor volcanoes.

The lights will remain out on the Lewis and Clark Bridge, which links Longview and Rainier, Ore.

Black Hawk helicopters parked at the Army Aviation Support field are scheduled to leave Saturday for training before deploying to Iraq.

A thief used fake checks matched to a Rainier couple's bank account to cash in on thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, the victims said Monday.

Anna Urban, 27, of Clatskanie was killed Friday, Jan. 9, when her 2003 Pontiac Sunfire, pictured here, collided with a sport utility vehicle on U.S. Highway 30 south of Rainier.

Salem-News.com - January 10, 2009 - 2:27 am Jan-09-2009 23:28 Clatskanie-Area Woman Dies in Crash on Highway 30 West of Rainier Salem-News.com Highway 30 was closed about 3 1/2 hours as traffic was re-routed ...

Clatskanie police, along with personnel from the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, Oregon State Police and Clatskanie Fire Department helped evacuate about 100 people from the Swedetown Village mobile home park ...

Broadway Calls are a power trio from Rainier, Oregon, which is about one hour north of Portland and has a population of just under 2000 people.

With snow hanging around in much of the region and chains still advised for parts of U.S. Highway 30, schools in Columbia County remain closed today.

The Oregon State Police is asking for the public's help as it continues to investigate the August killing of a 62-year-old Columbia County man.

Investigators are interested in talking to anyone who may have had contact with Cubbage since August 1st.

Question: Is there anything special we need to do to our everbearing strawberries before winter really hits? They still have strawberries on them, but they are not ripening much.