SWAINSBORO ― Russ Yeomans’ tree farm spans 2,500 acres in rural Emanuel County, and the property’s “showplace” is a lakeside outdoor party area complete with a firepit the size of an MMA octagon and ...

The coroner of Cowlitz County confirmed the cause of death of 10 of the 11 workers who perished last month in the worst industrial accident in the state’s modern history. By Anna Griffin Ten of the 11 ...

It's been two weeks since Washington's worst industrial accident in nearly a century. More than a half-million gallons of a caustic liquid known as white liquor flooded through the Nippon Dynawave ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. — The Washington State Department of Ecology has released detailed images from the Nippon Dynawave paper mill plant in Longview, where a chemical tank imploded. 11 people died, and ...

There is something inescapably peculiar about a “West Side Story” in which Riff cannot snap very well. The oddness of this detail encapsulates the serviceable version of this American classic now ...

A ninth worker killed in a Longview paper mill implosion was recovered from the site Friday as the complicated search continued for the two remaining people presumed dead. The tank implosion at the ...

Kraft pulp mills, which have been around for decades, use highly caustic chemicals known as white liquor and high‑temperature, high-pressure industrial processes to turn wood into paper and other ...

Crews recovered six bodies from a Longview paper mill Thursday as they continued the response to a massive chemical tank rupture earlier this week. That brings the confirmed death toll from the ...

Nine people remain unaccounted for following a deadly chemical implosion at a paper mill in Washington state. Two people died and hazardous conditions have slowed cleanup at the damaged tank.

The chemical process pulp and paper mills use to transform wood into everyday products includes a number of potentially violent points of failure, and some industry experts have been raising red flags ...

LONGVIEW, Wash. (KATU) — Federal investigators are heading to Longview, Wash., after a deadly chemical tank implosion at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging paper mill early Tuesday morning left at least ...