Grays Harbor County, WA

OCEAN SHORES, Wash. - FOX 13 News is digging into controversy after a superintendent of a Grays Harbor County school district resigned without any public reason. In April, the North Beach School District announced its current superintendent, Andrew Kelly, had resigned. The announcement came with no specific explanation for the...

The victim who was found after an act of arson caused a fire to a vacant house at 215 N. H St., has been identified, according to Bob Kegel, coroner for Grays Harbor County. Aaron J. Buchanan, 31, of Aberdeen, was located inside the former two-story vacant house, which was set on fire a little after 5 a.m., on April 23. An autopsy is pending.

As the rain poured down on the morning of Thursday, May 5, it seemed to match the internal rhythm of the day’s events — pairing with the march of over 150 students and the beat of a drum, leading a song in prayer for all the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG).

Help has come in the eleventh hour for Grays Harbor EMS & Trauma Care Council (GHEMS). The nonprofit, which provides emergency medical service training to county first responders, was set to close its office on Sumner Avenue on May 1, with a full closure in June. Thanks to some last-minute funding, GHEMS has pledged to keep its offices open and to continue coordinating the certification of all paramedics, EMTs, Emergency Medical Responders, and Advanced First Aid Personnel in the county.

GH Pitching — Hopper 3.1 IP, 6 hits, 3 ER, BB, 3 K; Highlights — McMurdo 2-3, 3 runs, 3 RBIs, 3 BB;. Cen Pitching — Beairsto 7 IP, 2 hits, BB, 11 K; Highlights — Taggart 1-3, run; Dalton 2-3; GH Pitching — Barth 7...

A number of local and regional political offices are already up for contention after the first day of filing week. Locally, Grays Harbor Commissioner Vickie Raines is set to face Grays Harbor Republican Party Chair Lisa Zaborac as well as Retired Aberdeen Fire Department Captain JR Streifel in that race to represent the 3rd Commissioner District.

An Aberdeen Police Department officer saved the life of an older disabled man in January from a house fire on the outskirts of Downtown Aberdeen. Officer Brandi Slater, a five-year veteran of APD, called it a “scary moment.”. For Slater’s efforts on that early morning, Thursday, Jan. 13, APD...

With a first team 1A Evergreen team mostly comprised of Grays Harbor athletes — all but four of the 12 selections, and those two non-Grays Harbor athletes are from Forks and Ilwaco — the Tenino boys soccer team finished with three second team selections and an honorable mention pick after finishing with the fourth-best record in the league.

The Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team (JNET) based out of Centralia arrested six people after dismantling a drug trafficking organization, with assistance from the Grays Harbor Drug Task Force. In a release from JNET, they say that beginning in 2021 and ending this week, members of the team have been investigating...

GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY, Wash. — Jay Gordon’s family has been farming in Grays Harbor County since 1872. Gordon said the 2022 harvest could be the worst. “We’re probably going to have this cold and wet at least through July,” said Gordon. Usually, by mid-May, Gordon said...

A reward for information regarding missing 5-year-old Oakville girl Oakley Carlson passed $20,000 this week, according to the fund’s organizers. The reward is for credible information that leads to Oakley’s whereabouts or for information that leads to the arrest of anyone involved in her disappearance. Those with information...

A new report by the US Department of the Interior has identified more than 400 federally-run schools for Native American children across the nation. Included in the report were 15 schools in Washington, with two of them in the Grays Harbor area. The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report...

GRAYS HARBOR COUNTY, Wash. - Five-year-old Oakley Carlson has been missing for more than a year. Now, the reward is up to $20,000 for information that will bring her home. Oakley was reported missing in December 2021, but she was last seen ten months earlier. Her biological parents Jordan Bowers...