Cowlitz PUD crews worked to restore power to "upwards of 500" customers Saturday after a handful of outages in Longview and Kalama, said PUD spokeswoman Alice Dietz.

The candidate filing period for special purpose districts in Cowlitz County opens at 8:30 a.m. Monday.

The Longview School Board will swear in newly re-elected members, vote on a new president and vice president and appoint board members to be subcommittee and liaison representatives at its Monday night meeting.

The following are significant dispositions from Cowlitz County Superior Court cases.

Columbia County will hold several public meetings to hear comments about proposed service cuts and possible fare decreases to the Columbia County Rider transit service.

Friday morning, a group of Wilcox & Flegel employees delivered a “sleigh full” of food, clothing, toiletries and gift cards to Longview school district’s needy students and their families.

Tom Gunn can trace his connection to Cowlitz County’s largest food drive back 26 years, when he first joined the Longview Early Edition Rotary.

A nearly six-month detour around a portion of State Route 506 near Vader will continue through springtime because dense soil forced contractors to adapt the design for a replacement Lacamas Creek Bridge.

A suspicious bag, which was ultimately found to be harmless, prompted a response from the Portland Bomb Squad and caused the Kelso Tree Lighting Festival to end about a half hour early Friday night, Kelso Police Chief Darr Kirk said…

Recent reports of criminal activity from our local law enforcement agencies.