Wasco County News

Editor's note: The Chronicle launches a new occasional series today with two stories on how the recession is affecting people in the Columbia Gorge.

Wasco County has circled back to space in the La Clinica building as a potential site for a new 9-1-1 center to replace the existing small center, located downtown within The Dalles' flood plain.

Oregon State Police are responding to a fatal traffic crash in Tygh Valley, in Wasco County.

The Dalles City Council approved the long-discussed Chenowith Interchange Area Master Plan at Monday night's meeting, with some last-minute changes.

North Central Public Health District has received a shipment of H1N1 vaccine sufficient to allow for public clinics, said Teri Thalhofer, RN, district director, in a Nov.

"Ask us about Maggie," family members are saying after the tragic death of Margaret Guth Bleakley on Oct.

One big question looming over the economies of Columbia Gorge counties this fall is this: Where will Insitu site new facilities? It's a big question, with part of the answer riding on whether the independently owned Boeing subsidiary can attract a big federal defense contract currently out for bid.

The Oregon Government Ethics Commission is facing challenges over its own conduct for how it's collecting money to operate.

An engineering firm hired by Yamhill County to study alternatives to expansion of McMinnville's Riverbend Landfill identified 12 of them and found major fault with all 12.

A 31-year-old member of the European Kindred white supremacists has agreed to a life sentence for killing a fellow gang member in the Columbia Gorge.

THE DALLES, Ore. - Wasco County has a posse. Unlike the old-timey posses that would gallop through miles of badlands on horseback hunting bank robbers, cattle rustlers and other fearsome ne'er-do-wells, Wasco County Sheriff's Mounted Posse takes a different route.

Oregon State Police, with the assistance of Wasco County area law enforcement agencies, arrested a The Dalles-area woman Friday evening on allegations she conspired to kidnap an infant child from an acquaintance family.

A woman from The Dalles was arrested Friday on charges she planned to kidnap a former neighbor's baby, police said.

Don Campbell was wetting his shed with a garden hose Thursday night when the red edge of the Microwave fire leapt over the back of the building and he decided it was time to flee.

Residents of Mosier in Wasco County are being allowed to move back into their homes today as the immediate threat to property from the Microwave fire has diminished, according to the Oregon Department of Forestry.

A fast-moving wildfire is threatening the town of Mosier this morning and has prompted the evacuation of about a dozen homes.

WASCO COUNTY, Ore. A medical marijuana patient and seller from Washington state is now back in Spokane after he was arrested for buying pot in Oregon.

Winding up State Road, both sides of the street are lined with orchards. White sandwich board signs advertise "U-pick cherries, $1." Just up the way, a white SUV on the side of the road displays an American flag in its rear window.

Accroding to a press release from the office of the Wasco County District Attorney, Luis Javier Torres, a resident of The Dalles, was convicted after a jury trial of robbery in the first degree, burglary in the first degree, coercion and interfering with a report on June 11, 2009.

A Wasco County man has been charged with assaulting his father at a McMinnville motel.