ASTORIA, Ore. - The US Coast Guard reports that a privately owned helicopter crashed into the waters of Grays Harbor, Wash., approximately one mile north of Ocean Shores, Wash., Tuesday morning. For video of the flyover, click the image below, for the complete story click Read More...

In this video released by the Coast Guard, an MH-60 helicopter crew from Group/Air Station Astoria performs a flyover of a privately-owned helicopter which crashed near Ocean Shores, Wash., July 7, 2009. Neither passenger of the helicopter was seriously injured and only a light sheen of fuel was detected on the surface of the water. (U.S. Coast Guard video/Air Station Astoria)

SEATTLE - The Coast Guard medically evacuated an injured hiker near Lake Ozette in the Olympic National Park, Wash.

Coast Guard Group/Air Station Port Angeles, Wash., received a request at approximately 2:30 p.m., Tuesday, from rangers at the Olympic National Park requesting help for a 14-year old hiker who  fell and needed to be medically evacuated.

An HH-65C Dolphin helicopter crew airlifted the hiker and transported him to emergency medical personnel at Port Angeles.

The hiker's condition is unknown. 

The Grays Harbor County Public Health and Social Services Department, is partnering with Hoquiam Riverfest in a walk around the bridges this Saturday, July 11 from 9-10 a.m.  Check in at the Public Health table on 8^th and Levee Street and then enjoy a 1.4 mile walk around the Riverside and Simpson Avenue bridge loop.  This is not a race and it is free of charge, so bring the family and the dogs and enjoy the fresh air.  Show your support for a healthy lifestyle and encourage someone you know to join you in this adventure.   Hope to see you there - this Saturday, July 11 from 9-10 a.m. 

OLYMPIA...Under a grant from Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, counties in Washington have teamed with local colleges to launch a new 21st century voter information tool.  

Beginning July 20, voters in Kitsap County and four other counties will have the ability to access a video version of their local Voters' Pamphlet.  Grant, Pacific, Pend Oreille and Walla Walla counties also are participating.     

Voters in the participating counties can go to their County Elections Web site to access an interactive version of their sample ballot. A voter can then click on any of the candidates appearing on his or her ballot to watch, listen and read a statement directly from the participating candidates.  To assist candidates in filming their video statement, each participating county has teamed with its local college's media department.   

Olympia, WA., For four weeks this summer, Washington State Patrol, along with county and local law enforcement agencies, will be out making sure car and truck drivers are behaving themselves around each other.  During the months of July and September, Washington State Patrol, and other law enforcement agencies, will participate in the 2009 Ticketing Aggressive Cars and Truck (TACT) project that will focus on how drivers can share the road safely with commercial motor vehicles on rural routes instead of the interstate.

In Washington, between 2005 and 2007, commercial vehicles were involved in nearly 5000 collisions.  On rural roads, the driver of the car was at fault two-thirds of the time, causing the deaths of 175 people, and another 450 people were injured. 

"Motorists who drive recklessly, or are unsafe around these big rigs, are asking for trouble," said Chief John R. Batiste, Washington State Patrol.  "When a car and a commercial vehicle are involved in a collision, the car will lose."