A cross country trip to some extreme rapids was the fun trip this friendship group always wanted. Daniel Porter from Phoenix travelled to Oregon to spend a day rafting the Rogue River. The rafting ...

The 36th Division launched their night assault on the Rapido River, only to be met with relentless German artillery and impassable mud. Soldiers fought valiantly, but catastrophic losses and failed ...

Maurice Wattigney doesn’t recall his father, Louis “Toby” Wattigney Jr., talking about the Luling ferry disaster all that often. But when he did, the son could see the trauma in his dad’s eyes and ...

Washougal coach Dave Hajek talks to his team following the Panthers' win over Columbia River in a 2A Greater St. Helens League football game on Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, at Fishback Stadium. (Will Denner ...

In June of this year, TikTok banned the hashtag #SkinnyTok—an effort to limit the prevalence of harmful weight-loss content that had gradually carved out its own subculture on the app. But since then, ...

KINGSTON, Jamaica — Hurricane Melissa made landfall in Cuba early Wednesday as a Category 3 storm after devastating western Jamaica on Tuesday. Flooding in Haiti, meanwhile, killed at least 20 people, ...

Here are the nominees for The Columbian 2025-26 Week 6 high school athlete of the week, sponsored by Killer Burger. Voting will continue until 7 p.m. Thursday. To avoid vote manipulation, participants ...

KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — Rescuers were digging through ice and snow on a mountain in Nepal on Tuesday to recover the bodies of seven climbers who were killed by an avalanche a day earlier, officials ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — The remains of three people handed over by Hamas to the Red Cross this week do not belong to any of the hostages, Israel said Saturday, the latest development that could undermine the ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. DES MOINES — Nearly $54 million has been invested in disaster relief programs established to help Iowans ...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KOAA) — One of the Return to Nature funeral home co-owners, Carie Hallford, appeared in an El Paso County courtroom Monday as a judge decided not to accept a plea deal on her ...