After last month’s fiery oil train derailment in the Columbia River Gorge, federal regulators put the blame on Union Pacific Road for failing to maintain its track.
On April 27, Steve Holm and three other inspectors drove right over a set of broken railroad bolts that later would cause a massive oil train explosion.
A $32 million Performing Arts and Event Center in Federal Way will open next summer. Local leaders hope it will attract more of the region's economic boom into the city.
North Portland resident Stacey Schroeder stands on the bluff along WIllamette Boulevard overlooking Swan Island and the Daimler Trucks North America plant, as her daughter picks dandelions in the...