County officials on Thursday agreed to start the process of creating a new jail services department. The new department will ultimately answer to the Board of Commissioners — not Sheriff Daniel Garcia ...

Troy Brynelson / OPB During a meeting Wednesday, administrators in Southwest Washington’s Pacific County proposed changing oversight of the jail. The change would take it out of the hands of county ...

A lawsuit filed against Pacific County and its prosecutor alleges serious misbehavior and seeks unspecified damages. Pacific County is being sued over allegations that the county’s elected prosecutor, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This story was originally published on mynorthwest.com. A Pacific County fire chief was charged last week with 37 counts of child ...

SOUTH BEND — Reviews of deaths in Pacific County jail on Dec. 13, 2022, and Oct. 7, 2024, have been quietly completed and submitted to the Washington State Department of Health. The reports make three ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 6—Pacific County will receive nearly a million dollars in federal funds for youth suicide prevention, the United States ...

A Tornado Warning has been issued by the National Weather Service for part of Pacific County in Southwest Washington in the area of Nemah. The warning is in effect until 5:15 p.m. The NWS advises ...

SOUTH BEND, Wash., Aug. 31, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Pacific County, WA Treasurer’s office conducted the county’s first-ever virtual tax foreclosure sale with Bid4Assets, a leading online auction ...

A Pacific County teenager who murdered his father in 2010 because he wasn’t allowed to have a car will spend 31 years in prison, a judge ruled recently.