When Dan Sligh and his wife got into their truck to begin a camping trip Thursday evening, they never could have imagined they would end up in the frigid Skagit River tangled in the wreckage of a collapsed bridge.
A truck hauling a too-tall load of drilling equipment hit an overhead bridge girder on the major interstate between Seattle and Canada, sending a section of the span and two vehicles into the Skagit River. All three occupants suffered only minor injuries.
Sen. Ron Wyden is zeroing in on his plan for boosting logging on federal lands in Western Oregon and helping rural counties beset by money problems.
The Interstate 5 bridge over the Skagit River collapsed Thursday evening, injuring an unknown number of people.
The Boy Scouts of America's National Council has voted to ease a long-standing ban and allow openly gay boys to be accepted as Scouts.
An interagency narcotics team made a big big bust Wednesday, arresting 5 people and removing a child from a home they say drugs were being sold from.
A family dog attacked a baby boy's face Thursday morning, sending the child to Portland for reconstructive surgery.
A meeting regarding the potential for wind energy off the coast of Coos Bay was held at the North Bend Public Library Wednesday night.
The holiday weekend is fast approaching and for some that means taking the boat out on the water, even if the weather isn't exactly what they had hoped for.
Coos County Sheriff's deputies cited a man for disturbing a Snowy Plover nesting area on the north spit.
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