Banks' Independence Day celebrations, from a free event held on the grounds of Sunset Park, races at Sunset Speedway to ...

The Oregon Department of Emergency Management is urging Oregonians to be vigilant in the face of a National Terrorism ...

At 12:01 a.m. on Monday, June 23, fire season will begin in lands protected by the Oregon Department of Forestry in the ...

Freshly returned from a deployment in the Gorge, crews from the Banks Fire District and Gaston Rural Fire District joined ...

The Washington County Elections Division released the certified election results from the May 20 special district election ...

A fast growing wildfire in the Columbia River Gorge is being fought with the aid of local firefighters out of Gaston and Banks. According to the Oregon State Fire Marshal (OSFM), the Rowena Fire, ...

Banks Post Weekly Newsletter | June 12, 2025. Volume 1, issue #6. Good afternoon Banks Post readers! Here’s the big internal news: It’s still a bit rough, and we’re still working the kinks out, but ...

Two months of construction are coming to the Banks Road and Aerts Road intersection, marking the latest addition of construction that will snarl traffic for the foreseeable future as Banks prepares ...

Oil in Buxton. Moonshiners in Gales Creek. Banks was freshly a legal town. Timber had a West Timber. Welcome to 1925 in far western Washington County. In this column, we take a look back one hundred ...

The Banks Historical Society launched a campaign they have dubbed the “Save the Historic Banks Union High School,” joining an informal effort by local and county residents who hope to stop the planned ...

Congresswoman Suzanne Bonamici will host a Washington County Town Hall Tuesday, June 17 at 6 p.m. at the Raymond Arthur Brown Middle School gym in Hillsboro. According to a press release issued by ...

Water is on the agenda for CPO 14's Thursday evening meeting, with guests lined up from the Oregon Water Resources Department, who will speak on groundwater in western Washington County.