State lawmakers are optimistic they can pass a fix before drug possession laws sunset in July. Cowlitz police brass says they don’t want to chance it. While Washington lawmakers prepare for a special ...

VANCOUVER, Wash. — The Cowlitz Complex, a collection of 21 small, active wildfires burning in steep terrain in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest in a 20-mile radius around the small town of Randle, ...

An early-morning fire destroyed a shop in Cowlitz County on Sunday. Fire crews faced water supply challenges, but no injuries were reported.

Fisheries managers for the WDFW have started the process by which the state will decide if there will be enough of a smelt return to the Columbia River to open recreational smelt dipping on the Cowlit ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Cowlitz County officials are trying to piece together a death after a body was found among multiple cars on fire early Wednesday morning. At 3:33 a.m., a 911 caller reported a ...

The county’s Board of Commissioners this month decided to discontinue a sales tax that pays for a slew of initiatives that assist people struggling with drug use and behavioral health. Adam Pithan, a ...

This story originally appeared on Underscore Native News. The colonial legacies of assimilation policies and heteropatriarchal notions of gender and sexuality continue to reverberate through ...