Columbia County News

Beginning today, Child Care Resource & Referral in Washington and Columbia counties will combine to become one service delivery area.

Rent is paid through July for the 285 Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook county residents who were told that they would lose their Section 8 housing assistance on July 1. The Northwest Oregon Housing Authority board voted Thursday to use reserve revenue funds to pay for the residents' July assistance vouchers.

PAMPHLET PICKLE - This is one of several pamphlet varieties published by Northwest Publishing, a Portland company that has received an "F" grade from the Better Business Bureau and red flag from the South Columbia County Chamber of Commerce.

A Columbia County man has been sentenced to more than 18 years in prison for holding a friend's girlfriend in a rental trailer for four days in December 2007, at which time the two men beat her and threatened her life.

HELPING HANDS  - Jennifer Grenier of St. Helens volunteers at the Ford Foundation's final clean-up day on the Crown Zellerbach Linear Trail.

The 285 Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook county residents who were told they would lose housing assistance could be safe from eviction for at least one more month, if the Northwest Oregon Housing Authority board votes tomorrow to use reserve funds to pay residents' July rent.

Dorris Gresho, like many other Columbia County residents, fears a world without sheriff's deputies.

The Oregon State Police are investigating how a pipe bomb ended up on a residential property in Columbia County.

Columbia County sheriff's deputies have secured a residential property near St. Helens, where a possible pipe bomb has been found.

For two years a vicious midnight robbery of a home-based business on Brookdale Avenue confounded investigators.

ST. HELENS, Ore. -- Budget cuts proposed in Columbia County may leave its sheriff's office with only three deputies, leading residents to express concern Thursday about their safety.

Close to two-dozen department heads sit around a table and discuss their budgeting priorities each spring: which county programs should be cut, and which programs should be saved? That's the way the beginning of Lincoln County's budgeting process works.

A brightly decorated window in St. Helens at Geppetto's Ice Cream and Deli. Old Town St.

ST. HELENS, Ore. -- The community of St. Helens is pulling together to save a building they say plays an integral part of helping victims of abuse in Columbia County.

While there is no shortage of finger pointing after a decision by a Clatsop County nonprofit housing authority to cut federal rental assistance to 285 northwest Oregon residents, few solutions have been pitched to replace the jeopardized subsidy.

No housing for you! [1]: On May 22, the Warrenton-based nonprofit Northwest Oregon Housing Authority mailed letters to 285 residents in Columbia, Clatsop and Tillamook counties who receive U.S. Housing and Urban Development funds, informing them that they would no longer receive assistance dollars as of July 1. Of those, 141 live in Columbia ...

Two neighbors stood face-to-face May 9 in St. Helens, one holding a gun and the other a samurai sword.

Columbia County officials hope that Jay Sullivan's 26 years in Washington D.C. as a political insider and lobbyist can help them secure federal money to, in part, rebuild the city of Vernonia.

St. Helens police have a brother-sister duo in custody believed to be responsible for the April 30 placement of an explosive device near a baseball field dugout in a city park.

Down revenues from less construction and a smaller state budget have forced local governments to tighten their own budgets.