LONGVIEW, Wash., April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Equa-Chlor, Inc. today announced increased operating profits in 2009, less than eleven months after emerging from Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

KALAMA, Wash., June 3 /PRNewswire/ -- United Harvest, LLC announced today plans to improve and modernize the company's Kalama, Wash. export facility.

By John Branton Rescuers from Clark and Cowlitz counties late Tuesday were looking for a man who was swept into the North Fork of the Lewis River near the Happa Road Boat Launch, several miles east of Woodland. About 8:40 p.m.

By KATHIE DURBIN Republican state Rep. Ed Orcutt of Kalama, a fiscal conservative and a steadfast supporter of the state's timber industry during eight years in Olympia, faces Democrat Jonathan Fant of Battle Ground in his run for a fifth term representing the 18th District.

By LAURA McVICKER An 11-year-old autistic Portland boy, lost for two nights in wilderness near Mount St. Helens, was found safe Monday morning. Just after 6 a.m., Alex Irvin walked to the clearing of the Siouxon trailhead as searchers were mobilizing with dogs.