columbia river gorge

Rimrock and Clear Lake, Packwood, driving the canyon road to Ellensburg. Or toward the west side, there is Snoqualmie falls, north bend shopping, a nature reserve in Issaquah, and the zoo in Tacoma. I like to just get in the car and see where we end up. - Crystal M.

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The family of a Washington man killed when a tree fell on his car in the Columbia River Gorge seeks $2.2 million in a lawsuit against the state of Oregon. The suit filed Wednesday in Portland asserts the Oregon Department of Transportation has a duty to maintain trees along Highway 30, and the tree that crushed 27-year-old Jorge Figueroa showed obvious signs of decay... Read

MOSIER, Ore. (AP) — Union Pacific is asking a federal judge to reject local rules that threaten to derail its plans to add a second main track along the Columbia River Gorge where a crude oil train derailed last June. The Omaha, Nebraska-based railroad filed the lawsuit Tuesday against Wasco County and the Columbia River Gorge Commission, which moved to block the project last fall...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Another winter storm threatens to disrupt traffic in parts of Oregon in time for the holiday travel rush. Blizzard-like conditions closed Interstate 84 in Eastern Oregon between Baker City and Pendleton early Friday...

STEVENSON, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say the body of an Oregon man who hadn't returned from a hike in the Columbia River Gorge has been found. Skamania County Sheriff Dave Brown says search crews located the body of 31-year-old Melvin Burtch of Beaverton at about 5 p...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Union Pacific plans to resume transporting oil by train through the Oregon side of the scenic Columbia River Gorge at some point this week. It will mark the first time trains carrying barrels of crude oil will move through the area since June 3, when a train derailed near Mosier, Oregon...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Authorities say a train heading east from Portland was leaking diesel fuel and has stopped in the Columbia River Gorge. The Oregonian/OregonLive reports a Union Pacific spokesman confirmed the fuel leak Tuesday night...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Mayor Charlie Hales and Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury urged the governors of Oregon and Washington to push Congress for a permanent ban on oil-by-train in the wake of a recent fiery oil train derailment...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — State and federal inspectors are inspecting railroad tracks along the Columbia River Gorge this week after the fiery crude oil train derailment in Oregon this month. The Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission said Monday it has sent two track inspectors to work with the Federal Railroad Administration to inspect BNSF Railway's tracks along the Washington side of t

MOSIER, Ore. (AP) — Crews have removed the last of the crude oil from a train that derailed Friday in the tiny Columbia River Gorge town of Mosier. Greg Svelund with the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality says the oil has been trucked to The Dalles, and crews were working Wednesday to decontaminate and move the rail cars off site...