Clark Talks: 75 years in love, worst Thanksgiving sides
Need some easy listening while you’re preparing your Thanksgiving turkey? Check out Clark Talks, where Dameon Pesanti and Katie Gillespie talk to fellow reporter Jessica Prokop about life covering...
View ArticleLandlord found not guilty in sexual attack
A jury Wednesday found a local landlord accused of making unwanted sexual contact with a client not guilty. David Clinton Campos, 36, was charged with indecent liberties with forcible compulsion and...
View ArticleVancouver man denied change of plea request
A judge Wednesday denied a Vancouver man’s request to change his guilty plea to charges of having unwanted sexual contact with more than a dozen clients as a massage therapist. Valentin Delgado, 41,...
View ArticleSpirit Lake Highway to close for winter Dec. 1
TOUTLE — Time is running out for a visit to Mount St. Helens this year, with the upper portion of state Highway 504 set to close on Dec. 1. The highway, known as Spirit Lake Memorial Highway, will be...
View ArticlePopular free Chronis Thanksgiving dinner returns
Joe Mazzel didn’t know where he was going to park his van on Thanksgiving night. The 69-year-old has been homeless in the Vancouver area for 20 years. A Vietnam veteran, Mazzel receives assistance...
View ArticleMedical problem leads to three-vehicle crash
An apparent medical problem led to a three-vehicle, wrong-way crash Wednesday afternoon on Northeast 162nd Avenue near 18th Street in east Vancouver. The crash was reported as a rollover around 3:20...
View ArticlePolice: Woman set mobile home on fire
A woman rescued from a mobile home fire north of La Center on Tuesday night intentionally set the fire, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Cindy Jo Clem, 50, was distraught over a recent...
View ArticleAnnual interfaith holiday service draws 200
Religious ritual cannot substitute for the hard work of building a better world. “All of us have rituals and traditions that are dear to us. Interfaith gatherings are not meant to water them down,”...
View ArticleOne of the oldest, biggest pines in the Pacific Northwest is dead
A giant among giants and a beacon for countless tourists driving through the Columbia River Gorge is dead. The accurately-named Big Tree, a massive ponderosa pine near Trout Lake in the Gifford Pinchot...
View ArticleVancouver man makes Time’s top photos
A Vancouver resident knew that a photograph taken of him in 1963 affected the course of the civil rights movement. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. told him so. Now there is another testament to the...
View ArticleVancouver’s Main Event is not the typical sports bar
Why: Main Event Sports Grill was established in downtown Vancouver seven years ago. Soon thereafter a second location opened on the east side of Vancouver in Cascade Park. Main Event provides a...
View ArticleBody recovered Wednesday along Columbia River identified
The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office on Friday identified the body found earlier this week washed along the shore of the Columbia River as 22-year-old Clairissa Bliss. The medical examiner’s...
View ArticleLocals pile into stores for Black Friday
The predawn opening of Fred Meyer in the Orchards neighborhood drew a line of 80 people before 5 a.m., store representatives said. An hour later, the store was moshed by early-bird holiday shoppers and...
View ArticleAuthorities seek info on Woodland homicide victim
A man found dead by an apparent homicide at his burning Woodland home would often fish on the Lewis River, according to the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office, which is trying to find anyone who might...
View ArticleCouncil approves new disc golf course
A proposed 18-hole disc golf course at Hockinson Meadows Community Park took a step closer to becoming a reality after the Clark County council unanimously voted to approve the project at its Tuesday...
View ArticleComics lovers come together for charity
Some real-life superheroics is taking place at a local comic book store this weekend. Chris Simons, owner of I Like Comics in downtown Vancouver, “Fight Club” author Chuck Palahniuk and members of the...
View ArticleTree alight kindles spirit
The turkey and mashed potatoes were already a distant memory by Friday evening, with thousands of people at Propstra Square in Esther Short Park embracing the Christmas spirit at the annual Community...
View ArticleCamas shooting victim released from hospital
A Camas man who was shot during an alleged disturbance at a North Bonneville residence Wednesday has been released from the hospital. Brian M. Miller, 30, suffered three gunshot wounds, according to...
View ArticleGroup distributes coats to kids in need
Vancouver – The Vancouver area Knights of Columbus this week gave away more than 50 coats to children in need. Coats were distributed at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Church, Franklin Elementary School...
View ArticleWeather Eye: The skies will do as they want, whatever the forecasts may say
“The trouble with weather forecasting is that it’s right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.” –Patrick Young The Thanksgiving week forecast was somewhat of a bust....
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