Promising the best steak dinner in rural Washington County, the St. Francis Steak Dinner and Antique Tractor Show is held ...

Timber Road has reopened more than two years after a landslide closed the route linking Highway 6, Timber, and Highway 26.

Banks and Buxton area runners joined more than 500 people who finished the Vernonia Marathon, Half Marathon or Marathon Relay on Sunday on a route that mostly followed the Banks-Vernonia State Trail ...

Oil in Buxton. Moonshiners in Gales Creek. Banks was freshly a legal town. Timber had a West Timber. Welcome to 1925 in far ...

Special District Elections will determine who sits on school, fire, and other local boards for the next few years, and the ...

Have something to say about the project to build a roundabout on Highway 6 and Aerts Road? The window to comment closes April ...

Calls and statistics from March from deputies from the Washington County Sheriff's Office serving the city of Banks.

Chas Hundley is the editor of the Banks Post and sister news publications the Gales Creek Journal and the Salmonberry Magazine. He grew up in Gales Creek and has a cat.

The Washington County Sheriff’s Office released the names of four people found dead Tuesday afternoon in a Cornelius home. Detectives with the Washington County Sheriff’s Office Violent Crimes Unit ...

Firefighters deployed from Oregon to North Carolina to help fight wildfires have mostly returned, the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) said. As of Wednesday, four ODF staff remained to help close ...

A mother and her three young children were found dead in a Cornelius home Tuesday afternoon, the Washington County Sheriff’s Office said. The sheriff’s office said deputies serving the city of ...

Former Banks City Council member Don Gianetti resigned Tuesday morning for personal, primarily work-related reasons, he said in a resignation letter obtained in a public records request by the Banks ...