Free breakfast and lunch are available to any child 18 and under at 10 sites in Forest Grove and Cornelius this summer, with no sign-up required, Monday through Friday through Aug. 21.

A bicycle-riding samurai, a road-rage knife, an airborne DUII driver, and a felony warrant served mid dog-walk are among this week's Forest Grove Police Log calls.

In 1976, Rep. Les AuCoin sought to postpone a federal hearing on the Tualatin Project's second dam after the Teton Dam collapse in Idaho, drawing objections from local irrigation backers. Forest Grove set a record city-levy turnout, and the Elks built a fishing dock for the disabled at Hagg Lake.

A retired educator with deep Forest Grove, Hillside, and Gales Creek-area roots, Linda Harrington was chosen from eight applicants to fill the school board seat left vacant by Kate Grandusky's resignation.

They’re suing the city and county for approving tax breaks for a slate of data centers after the Legislature passed a law pausing the tax program but before that law took effect.

Forest Grove police officers responded alongside Washington County deputies to a deadly Saturday shooting in Gaston, where a Beaverton man is now jailed on a second-degree murder charge.

Gov. Tina Kotek joined youth advocates and supporters of the Dolly Parton Imagination Library on Thursday to sign the library program into state law

Forest Grove library hosts free Repair Fair Saturday, plus Hagg Lake parking pass rates rising July 1 — and more around town.

Lawmakers established Quality Education Commission in 1999 to set funding needs for public schools, but some lawmakers argue its model is outdated and flawed

In 1976, Forest Grove voters passed the first tax levy over the city’s 6 percent limit in its history, some 500 young violinists gathered at Pacific University for the annual Suzuki Institute, and residents turned out for a meeting on road improvements around the brand-new Scoggins Dam.

Organizers served 947 helpings of strawberry shortcake at the 56th Gales Creek Strawberry Festival, smashing last year's record, while a Sargent Road closure eased traffic.

Robert "Paul" Dickson, 72, of Forest Grove, was last seen Wednesday afternoon near Northwest Thatcher Road and may seem lost or confused, the Washington County Sheriff's Office said.

The public fire danger rises to moderate across northwest Oregon, including Forest Grove, Gales Creek and Banks, starting Friday; the industrial precaution level holds at 1.

Do not give Johnny Depp your banking and personal information: A weekly look at some of the calls Forest Grove police officers responded to, written and submitted by the Forest Grove Police Department.

Every Oregon Department of Forestry district is now in fire season, with northwest Oregon the last to declare June 15, the same morning a Washington County burn ban took effect.

While Oregon’s first 2026 heatwave is winding down Tuesday, heat and drought are expected to worsen through the summer and will heighten wildfire risks across Oregon, spurring Gov. Tina Kotek to declare a state of emergency.

The school board honored outgoing Director Kate Grandusky and dedicated the new Joseph Gale Elementary library in her name. Applications for her open seat are due June 17.

Forest Grove will ask voters in November to fund a new police station, a year and a half after they narrowly rejected a similar bond.

More than 100 inmates trained with state forestry instructors in May, putting 12 hand crews on call for wildfires this summer.

Escaped burn piles near the Hillside community and in Gales Creek drew Forest Grove Fire & Rescue crews twice in a week, prompting a warning for anyone burning before June 15.

All open burning will be prohibited across Washington County starting at 12:01 a.m. Monday, June 15, under a countywide ban that still allows small cooking and recreational fires.

A $9 fight ends in jail time, skateboarders get the police called on them for existing, and jubilant schoolchildren celebrate loud enough for a police call and more in this week's police log!

The Gales Creek Strawberry Festival returns June 13 with strawberry shortcake, about 50 vendors and a new Sargent Road closure aimed at a safer event.

In 1976, the Theatre in the Grove bought the Grove Theater and opened ‘Fiddler on the Roof,’ a Gales Creek pastor protested Forest Grove schools halting Gideon Bible giveaways, and Gales Creek’s berries ripened as the school year wound down.

Drop in at the Forest Grove City Auditorium on June 11 to see the county's plans for a new traffic signal and turn lanes at the Highway 47, Fern Hill Road and Maple Street intersection.

Fire season begins 12:01 a.m. Monday, June 15, across northwest Oregon, with all five state forestry districts in the region starting the same day and June 15 now set as the annual start.

More than halfway through her fourth term, longtime board member Kate Grandusky is resigning to immigrate to New Zealand. Her seat will be filled by appointment.

A gas leak at a College Way construction site closed several downtown Forest Grove streets Wednesday and led agencies to ask some Pacific University buildings to evacuate or shelter in place.

Theft from theatre, a loose dog, an injured racoon, a cat on a roof, and a swatting incident are in this week's Forest Grove Police Log.

Washington County detectives believe there may be more victims of Jacob Mandes, 53, indicted last month on 19 counts of rape, sodomy and sexual abuse, and are asking the public for help.