Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue Chief set to retire in December. Bob Palmer started with The Dalles Fire Department in 1980 and was an integral player in merging two districts into the fire service we have today that serves 120 square miles and takes some 3,500 calls for help annually.

Local TD resident is able to escape blaze of her own home, but much of it was destroyed after the fire broke out shortly after 1 a.m. on Sunday, May 21.

A 66-year-old male is in jail accused of arson after police were called out on a disturbance and the place he was living caught fire some three hours later. Oregon State Police Arson investigators are sifting through the scene for evidence.

Firefighters, police and local leaders gathered on Saturday the remember those fallen and those still suffering from the terrorist attack on 9-11-2001, where Boeing aircraft loaded with jet fuel were used to strike the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington D.C.

Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue approved a burn ban that will start on June 1

The silence is deafening for some. Two months have passed since the first self-imposed deadline to ink a deal that would bring $1.2 billion in Google investments for two new data centers in The Dalles. So what’s going on?

Mid-Columbia Fire & Rescue assisted a man who fell on West Fourth Street on Thursday Morning, March 4. The gentlemen in his 60s was treated and released at Mid-Columbia Medical Center.