In a 5-0 vote Council unanimously affirmed the 60-foot height permit for the Basalt Commons, a mixed-use building for business, and 116 apartments proposed for the former Griffth Motors, a half-acre lot at 523 E. Third Street.

For candidates intending to run in the upcoming November 5, 2024, General Election, packets are now available online and in the City Clerk’s office. Three City Councilor positions are open for election, each with a term of four years.

Councilor Dan Richardson said the increase of a $100 to $400 monthly stipend would help the diversity and number of people seeking election to Council, providing a broader voice for residents.

The Dalles City Council was turning letters like Vanna White as The Dalles Booster Club asked to rekindle an old tradition and muster some local pride.

Bingen City Council gives Craig Trummel the nod to fill the vacant council seat. The insurance underwriter has a background as a private practice lawyer and currently works for WFG National Title Insurance. Trummel expressed his interest in the city’s street and water systems, praising the recent work done on Humboldt Street and noting the unique relationship between the Bingen and the City of White Salmon.

“It is so disheartening that some believe that a solution to shopping carts around town is charging people criminally - people that are so desperate that they have to have a shopping cart to contain all of their worldly belongings,” Ellis said this morning, Oct. 27. 

In a split vote, The Dalles City Council approved a new ordinance that will require businesses utilizing shopping carts to retrieve them within 72 hours of them being reported abandoned. 

The Dalles City Council authorized Mayor Rich Mays and City Attorney Jonathan Kara to offer the city manager job to the Council’s top candidate and enter into an employment contract with that candidate during a short open meeting on Thursday, March 17.

TD City Council will interview four candidates for The Dalles City Manager on Thursday, March 17. Two are currently working in The Dalles. “I think it is the most important decision this Council will make,” said Mayor Rich Mays late last week. Read here about all 4 candidates. And plan to meet them in person on Wednesday, March 16.

Locals want to see an upgraded high school in The Dalles and at the same time want to see more affordable housing, according to a City of The Dalles local survey recently completed for the 2040 visioning process. Find out what else people thought here.

Council approves a $1-million deal to improve West Sixth Street, talks about hiring a new city manager, annexes property for new houses, gets clean audit and rejects bids for Trevitt Street utility replacement.

Local garbage service provider The Dalles Disposal Service is asking The Dalles City Council for a 5.05% increase for city residents to offset rising operational costs and disposal fees. Councilors are set to discuss the request at their regular meeting tonight, Dec. 13 at 5: 30 p.m. Read here to see everything on the agenda.

“What happens where the overall pattern of rainfall is decreasing,” asked Dawn Rasmussen. “We may have new pipelines but if there is no water coming down the pipelines what does that do to our community and who is going to win the water war?” Read more here to find out.

It looks fairly unanimous as The Dalles City Council is leaning heavily in favor of a deal to abate taxes for two new Google data centers. They are slated to decide on Monday night. Economist David Swensen differs in opinion when it comes to the overall benefit a data center brings to a community.

How much water does Google need to cool two new data plants in The Dalles? They're not spilling any details, "trade secrets," they say. But their request, which could be in the billions of gallons, has City Councilors looking at a massive potable water infrastructure upgrade that would increase water production capacity by 75 percent in the near future - billions of gallons per year.

Regional Airport manager David Rasmussen is set to ask The Dalles City Council to sign a lease agreement for an airplane hanger that will eventually house a community college aviation maintenance program. The meeting is slated to start at 5:30 p.m. tonight, May 10, and is available via ZOOM.

Officials discussed multiple issues affecting locals, including the multi-million dollar Google proposal, The Grove subdivision in East The Dalles and a possible construction job near the John Day Dam that could bring 3,000 jobs. Read more here.

Bob Haechrel hit on a question of fairness in regards to tax breaks for Google on their construction of two new data centers at the former aluminum plant site in The Dalles. It was just one of several comments Wasco County Commissioners received at their Wednesday public hearing.

Public comment is set to open for Google’s latest tax reduction at a joint meeting between The Dalles City Council and Wasco County Commissioners on Wednesday, Feb. 17 at 2:30 p.m. The 20-year deal would require Google to pay 50 percent and 60 percent of assessed property taxes on two new data centers respectively. The deal is potentially worth $90 million to start.