Cowlitz Regional News

In Loving Memory of our Family, Friends, and Neighbors January 2026

Kelso, Wash – Love Overwhelming, Low Income Housing, and S River Road. Many residents are speaking out against the proposed low-income housing project.

Insurance Companies and Pharmacies say doses above 90mg Morphine Equivalent Dose (MED) (and now it’s 50) may cause overdose. Clearly, they haven’t reviewed the current statistics—1.14% ODs are from pharmaceutical meds. They deny “Prior Authorization” without a taper plan.

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.

Castle Rock – Older Buildings Create Expensive Challenges for New Businesses

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.” 

The proposed spillway raise, currently scheduled for July 2026, relies on 2019 data, which may no longer accurately reflect current river conditions, sediment loads, flood behavior, or environmental and economic considerations. Given the scale of public investment and the long-term implications of this project, it is both reasonable and prudent to conduct a comprehensive feasibility study to obtain updated and current data first.

36-year forester & 24-year legislator explains how overzealousness threatens to remove 200,000 acres of land from working forests – a few acres at a time, and at a very high cost to our rural communities.

Cowlitz County Wild Horses live on Weyerhaeuser Land and professional wranglers manage the herd.

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.