Two people died on Friday in a crash that shut down Highway 30 west of Rainier — a crash that the staff of a nearby veterinary clinic blamed on the Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT)'s ...

Crews responded to a fire that engulfed a car in flames near Highway 30 on Monday afternoon, but the cause and details of the vehicle are unknown.

According to ODOT this part of the highway sits in an ancient landslide and has been prone to cracking over the past decade.

A portion of the Historic Columbia River Highway is closed between Larch Mountain Rd. and the Vista House, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced Wednesday.

but Oregon State Police Captain Kyle Kennedy later clarified to Nexstar’s KOIN that roughly 30 to 40 vehicles were involved in multiple small crashes in close proximity to each other. “Road ...