Jun. 30—Early Sunday morning, members of the Lewis County Sheriff's Office Swiftwater Rescue Team responded to a call regarding a stranded vessel on the Cowlitz River, approximately 1 mile downriver ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers says a stopgap flood control project it undertook on the Toutle River last summer is working as expected. Engineers raised the spillway of the sediment-retaining dam ...

Forecasters have issued a flood warning for the Cowlitz River in the Randle area of eastern Lewis County, but no flood threats are forecast anywhere else in the lower Columbia region. The Cowlitz has ...

Federal regulators are asking county leaders to consider additional monitors on Cowlitz Public Utility District’s hydroelectric generating dam. Almost all of the PUD’s power comes from the Bonneville ...

Thousands of Northwesterners were disappointed when they failed to meet up with some hooligans in March. These hooligans don’t make much trouble, except when they don’t show up. They’re a species of ...