Clark County GOP convention ‘huge success’
Anyone hoping for the drama of the national Republican presidential race would have been disappointed. Saturday's Clark County Republican Party Convention was calm, methodical and filled with long,...
View ArticleClark College students, WSUV master gardeners spruce up Hazel Dell School Garden
Hazel Dell -- A handful of green-thumbed Clark College students from Veronica Brock's "Food and Your Health" classes assisted Washington State University master gardeners as they set up for spring...
View ArticleWeather Eye: The lion who brought in March continues to roar almost daily
Ever since the lion brought in the month of March, he has been roaring nearly every day bringing rain, wind, hail and thunder. Not to mention occasional dumps of heavy snow in the Cascades and damaging...
View ArticleLibrary district buying land next to Battle Ground branch
With an eye on possible expansion, regional library trustees voted Thursday to buy 80,586 square feet of property adjacent to the Battle Ground Community Library, 1207 S.E. Eighth Way. The $180,000...
View ArticleSeized assets help pay to fight crime
On Piper's first day on the job last November, the drug-sniffing black Lab helped nab three alleged drug dealers -- and seize more than 25 pounds of heroin, methamphetamine and cocaine; $220,000 in...
View ArticleWoman killed in police confrontation in Five Corners
FIVE CORNERS — Police shot and killed a woman who allegedly attacked two deputies with a hammer and a knife Sunday in a residential neighborhood, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. The...
View Article3 reportedly injured in brawl outside Vancouver bar
A fight between dogs belonging to transients reportedly erupted into a brawl that hurt three people outside of a downtown Vancouver bar tonight, according to emergency radio traffic monitored at The...
View ArticleWoodland learns lesson in sports marketing
A new high school and a new football stadium are giving the Woodland Beavers a chance to show off some updated sports branding. Two Northwest universities — plus a drone — have played different roles...
View ArticleOcean salmon fishing closure mulled for this summer
State, federal and tribal officials are considering closing all salmon fishing off the Washington and Northern Oregon coasts in 2016 to protect weak runs of wild coho. The Pacific Fishery Management...
View ArticleMan shot at Portland birthday party shows up at Vancouver hospital
A man showed up at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the arm early Sunday morning, following a birthday party where Portland police say a gunfight broke out between rival...
View ArticleDNA links murder suspect to Vancouver woman’s death
DNA found on a cigarette butt and lamp stand inside the apartment of a Vancouver woman who was killed in May led detectives to the man suspected in her death, court records show. David James Barker,...
View ArticlePolice: Man sexually assaulted women he met online, including one from Clark...
Investigators in Oregon are looking for additional information after arresting a man on suspicion of multiple sexual assaults, including an alleged attack of a Clark County woman. Officers arrested...
View ArticlePickup careens into tree north of Ridgefield
Paramedics rushed a Vancouver man to the hospital after he allegedly fell asleep at the wheel and his pickup slammed into a tree north of Ridgefield on Monday afternoon. The driver, Jesse Kinsey, 33,...
View ArticleDriver suspected of causing crash while impaired by heroin
A driver suspected of being impaired by heroin and causing a crash on state Highway 502, seriously injuring his passenger, made a first appearance Monday in Clark County Superior Court. Howard E....
View ArticleTransient man appears in court following car chase
A transient man made a first appearance in Clark County Superior Court on Monday in connection with a high-speed chase Friday on East Mill Plain Boulevard. Kevin B. Schauer, 21, appeared in court to...
View ArticleNothing new on officer-involved shooting
The Clark County Sheriff’s Office shared no additional information Monday regarding the death of an alleged knife- and hammer-wielding woman shot by deputies late afternoon Sunday in Five Corners. At...
View ArticleEvergreen Highway residents: Fix our road
Sick of bone-jarring drives, flat tires and vehicle alignment problems, residents along the old Evergreen Highway corridor told the Vancouver City Council on Monday they wanted the 100-year-old road...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 3/15
Saturday — 2 adult spring chinook, 39 steelhead. Water temperature: 44.2 degrees. Visibility: 5.0 feet. Streamflow: 222,000 cubic feet per second.
View ArticleTroopers investigate fatal crash on I-5 southbound in Vancouver
The driver of a pickup traveling south on Interstate 5 near Hazel Dell exited the moving vehicle and was struck and killed by a tractor-trailer late Monday, according to the Washington State Patrol....
View ArticlePolice: Beliebers targeted in concert ticket scam
Being a Belieber shouldn’t mean trusting unofficial ticket sellers. The Vancouver Police Department is warning against buying concert tickets through Craigslist after taking three reports of scams...
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