The Daily News (Longview, WA)

4 days ago | tdn.com | Hayley Day

A Massachusetts-based renewable energy company with a facility in Longview announced Monday a deal with all Fred Meyer stores in Washington and Oregon to turn food waste into energy and lessen the amount of unsold food sent to landfills. Divert — which operates a 66,000-square-foot plant in Longview — takes in food waste from stores across the country, and converts the discarded nutriments into fuel instead of letting the waste rot in landfills to turn into methane, a greenhouse gas.

4 days ago | tdn.com | Noah K. Murray

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4 days ago | tdn.com | Minka Atkinson

As of May, Cowlitz County has received just over $2.7 million from state settlements with opioid manufacturers and distributors. Now, county officials need to decide how those funds will be used. Under the agreement between the county and the state, settlement funds must be used for certain approved strategies to treat and prevent opioid use disorder.

6 days ago | tdn.com | Minka Atkinson

When recent Mark Morris High School graduate Ben Bilger tells people he wants to study nuclear engineering, they tend to immediately think of nuclear weapons, or power plant accidents like the one at Three Mile Island in 1979. However, Bilger’s goal is to help challenge that perception and show how nuclear power, when used safely, could benefit the world. “Nuclear energy is very clean, very good for the environment,” he said. “It’s constant power.

6 days ago | tdn.com | Hayley Day

Port of Woodland commissioners have selected a new candidate after the sudden death of port commissioner Paul Cline. Cline, 73, died April 23, according to Port of Woodland press release. Commissioners Rob Rich and Bob Wile selected Pat Canfield, of Ariel, after three candidates were interviewed during a special meeting on Tuesday. Candidates for the District 3 positions had to be residents of southeast Cowlitz County and communities in the area of Ariel, Yale and Cougar.