1+ hour, 23+ min ago   (43+ words) Lower Columbia Currents | Andre Stepankowsky | Substack Update: Longview firefighters expect to battle scrap metal blaze for several more hours Officials issue shelter-in place advisory for nearby neighborhoods...

1+ hour, 39+ min ago   (1240+ words) A new U.S. Forest Service plan would construct a second drainage tunnel and repair an existing one to prevent Spirit Lake from causing catastrophic flooding along the Cowlitz, Toutle and Columbia Rivers. It also calls for periodically lowering the lake up…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (925+ words) A new federal plan would lower Spirit Lake 40 feet, construct a second drainage tunnel and repair an existing one as a hedge against future catastrophic flooding. The plan would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and would drastically change the…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (903+ words) A new federal plan would lower Spirit Lake 40 feet, construct a second drainage tunnel and repair an existing one as a hedge against future catastrophic flooding. The plan would cost hundreds of millions of dollars and would drastically change the…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (906+ words) I am reposting this story to clarify the cost of the levy. Longview voters in November will decide whether to boost their city property tax about 50% to finance construction of a third fire station and pay for more firefighters and…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (548+ words) Search and recovery efforts will resume Wednesday morning in the aftermath of an industrial accident at Nippon Dynawave Packaging that officials Tuesday evening called an “unimaginable tragedy.” One worker was dead and nine workers were still missing as officials gathered…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (1133+ words) A dozen parents, students and community members gathered outside the Longview School District Office Tuesday evening to call for the resignation of the school board and accountability for all those involved in covering up the alleged sexual assaults that occurred…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (298+ words) Editors note: A previous version of the story had the wrong amount of white liquor remaining in the tank. Emergency responders continue recovery and stabilization operations at Nippon Dynawave Packaging following Tuesday morning’s industrial incident involving the rupture of a…...

2+ mon, 2+ day ago   (1284+ words) Longview School Superintendent Karen Cloninger blocked school employees from reporting suspected sex and physical abuse among some members of the Mark Morris varsity basketball team and ordered them to handle the allegations “quietly and internally,” according to court documents made…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (1738+ words) Troy Brightbill will become Cowlitz County’s next sheriff in January. He won’t need a break-in period. Brightbill, 51, has held virtually every commissioned officer position with the agency since he began as a patrol deputy in 1999. He has been a patrol…...