Toutle News

Columbia River anglers will be able to catch chinook salmon throughout August during this year's "Buoy 10" fishery, but will be required to release any chinook they intercept upriver to Bonneville Dam until ...

On Sept. 23, 2004, two or three miles beneath Skamania County, for reasons nobody yet understands, a swollen reservoir of molten rock at least six times the size of Lake Merwin began to tremble with 200 little ...

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 ...

River fishing has been a mixture of fair to good this week. Good catches of spring chinook and steelhead are being had on the Olympic Peninsula.

This weekend has been designated "Free Fishing Weekend" by the state Department of Fish and Wildlife.

Navy Seaman Recruit Kody A. Jones, son of Racheal D. Jones of Bremerton and Shannon D. Kretz of Toutle, Wash., recently completed U.S. Navy basic training at Recruit Training Command, Great Lakes, Ill. via Tacoma Daily Index

“It's the first time in 41 years that I've ever taken a camera and taken pictures out there.”

Thirty-two years ago, Pete Weekley was the engineer and Gary Sweet was the brakeman on the first Weyerhaeuser train to haul freshly sawn lumber out of the new Green Mountain sawmill in Toutle. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“I'm truly sorry. We try to be good neighbors”

A Weyerhaeuser Co. official has apologized to residents of this small southwest Washington town for the putrid smell from a company landfill. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Park officials at the the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument in Toutle, Wash., said a garden gnome has mysteriously appeared in front of a camera. via Daily India

WSU exec to be interim CEO of NPR during national search National Public Radio named Dennis Haarsager, associate vice president and general manager of educational and public media at Washington State ... via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Weyerhaeuser says it will close its Green Mountain sawmill in Toutle on May 1, four months earlier than it planned. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Weyerhaeuser Company today announced that it has accelerated plans to permanently close its Green Mountain Sawmill in Toutle, Wash. via Business Wire

“Well, we've got Dodges and Mazeratis.”

Three local outdoors enthusiasts are hoping their latest business venture will fly as true as an arrow. via Daily News

Cowlitz County sheriff's deputies arrested a Castle Rock man after an apparent road rage incident culminated with a smashed window. via Daily News

“We've had officers in the area since November when dead animals starting showing up alongside the road”

Andre Stepankowsky A 34-year-old Kelso man has been charged with poaching Toutle Valley elk and other violations as a result of an investigation that began in November, the state Department of Fish & Wildlife ... via Daily News

Adorable AKC Yorkie Puppies $900 Save listing AKC, Purebred Yorkshire Terrier Puppies for Sale. via Seattle Post-Intelligencer

“We have a wonderful resource in our forestlands and wetlands”

A bill to improve public access to state-owned forests and waterways has passed one hurdle, and local representatives expect it to prevail this Legislative session. via Daily News

“If you're going to make an error, best to make an error to keep people safe”

They study weather reports and test drive icy roads at 3 in the morning. Still, district officials who must make school closure decisions by 5 a.m. have only a cloudy view of the day's weather conditions. via Daily News

“They get turned over pretty rapidly, and sometimes they're sold within hours”

It wasn't quite a Cinderella story. This woman's party ended when the Glock struck ... no, not midnight: It hit a windshield. via The Columbian