Coach Kreider has officially been inducted into the Washington State Track and Field Hall of Fame. Joe Krieder was a Longtime Kelso track-and-field coach and a Coweeman Middle School social studies teacher.
The term, “eminent domain,” infers a sense of nobility, honorability, and indicates an exercise for the public’s common good. Sadly, more often than not, it’s used as a bludgeoning tool to lawfully take property from legal landowners, under the guise of the “greater public good,” or in the “public’s best interest.”
Longview has always been a town that makes things. From our timber beginnings to our modern port, we are an industrial city built on honest work. And right now, politicians in Olympia are making it harder to grow that future.
Firefighters from Cowlitz 2 Fire & Rescue responded to a shop on fire early Sunday morning in the 400 block of Moilanen Rd. at 4:21 am.
The police were extra busy this Christmas week: 48 people were booked into jail, and Longview had multiple calls, including a food delivery driver chased around 3:30 AM on Christmas Eve. Woodland had a suspicious abduction; witnesses reported a woman being pushed into a car near exit 21. We had a fugitive detained in downtown Kalama, and Yacolt even chimed in with a non-injury airplane crash too.
They say they’ll increase the Working Families Tax Credit, but they don’t say by how much, if any. Talk is cheap.
Since the WFTC program launched in 2023, approximately 359,000 refunds have been issued, totaling about $263.4M (this is a pittance when you consider a $78 billion budget)
In January 2026, the USACE issued a new Nationwide Permit (NWP 60) specifically designed to streamline “Activities to Improve Passage of Fish and Other Aquatic Organisms,” which may aid future infrastructure modifications on the Toutle.
Trial date set for April 27, 2026, for Ramon Tovar Jimenez, the Longview resident accused of assaulting a federal immigration officer while they were making an arrest.
With less than a year until Southwest Washington votes on who will represent the region in the U.S. House of Representatives, two fundraising frontrunners have appeared, and two others show they’ve been busy themselves, raising thousands to fund lesser-known campaigns.
