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A semi-truck went off Highway 22 and crashed into the North Santiam River southeast of Detroit on Monday morning. The Idanha-Detroit Rural Fire Department responded to the crash at about 7:18 a.m. at milepost 71, just south of Marion Forks, according to dispatch records. “The driver was able to exit the cab on his own accord, and […]

Maddie Pfeifer Nearly 2,000 gallons of diesel spilled from a Linn County farm’s above-ground storage tank in late April, some of it flowing into the nearby rivers. Stahlbush Island Farms reported to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality on April 25 that one of its storage tanks had spilled diesel, according to Dylan Darling, public

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is investigating a possible contamination of Glen Creek after dead fish were found floating in the water Friday. Rasmussen Spray Service workers applied two water treatments to a private pond at 1170 Willow Creek Drive NW in West Salem to treat algae and unwanted vegetation on Wednesday, said Katherine Benenati

REEDSPORT — Reedsport police and the U.S. Coast Guard responded to a report of a boat sinking while moored on the Scholfield Slough on Friday morning. Diesel fuel from a sinking vessel creates a sheen on the water of Schofield Creek in Reedsport on Friday. The RPD was first to respond and contacted the Coast

A Grand Ronde woman was killed early Tuesday morning in a two-vehicle crash on Highway 22 in Polk County, about nine miles east of the Highway 18/22 interchange. She was identified as Elisabeth Robin, 34, according to the Oregon State Police. OSP gave this account of the crash that occurred about 7 a.m. Robin was

Earlier today, crews working with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) closed a one-block section of SE 86th Avenue from SE Stark Street to SE Washington Street in an effort to contain a mercury spill. A representative for the EPA indicated that a person deposited the hazardous substance

A Philomath company has some of its employees already working on the scene of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and has about 175 people on standby for cleanup efforts. Steve Finch, the program manager for NWFF Environmental, said Friday that the company has 10 employees in the Gulf Coast area working on communications, and

The COVID-19 pandemic slowed some aspects of the commercial maritime industry in 2020, particularly in the early months of the coronavirus’ emergence. But less than a year later, much of the industry returned to business as usual. In addition to that degree of normalcy, an unfortunate byproduct of maritime operations has also returned – spills