Clark College celebrates Sakura Festival on Thursday
Clark College will celebrate its 11th Sakura Festival at 1 p.m. Thursday. Community members are invited to gather under the cherry blossoms to celebrate a legacy of international friendship and...
View ArticleVancouver man arrested after high-speed chase, crash
Law enforcement from three agencies helped stop and arrest a Vancouver man who led authorities on high-speed pursuit early this morning. A trooper with the Washington State Patrol spotted a green 1998...
View ArticleMotorcyclist injured in crash with school bus
A motorcyclist was injured after crashing into a school bus this morning, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. The school bus was stopped in the 8600 block of Northeast 117th Avenue just...
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Overturned tractor trailer blocks I-5 ramp to SR-14
An overturned tractor trailer is blocking the ramp from northbound Interstate 5 to state Highway 14. The crash was reported about 11:30 a.m., with Washington State Department of Transportation...
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Off Beat: It’s ‘see you later,’ not goodbye, for artist and painting
Some of these historical legacies -- such as the story that resonates with museum official Toni Kiser -- were buried for years in footlockers. In Gordon Sage's case, it spent 50 years percolating...
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Skamania crews assist injured, lost adventurers
Skamania County emergency crews were kept busy this weekend after responding to both a hiker and a climber who fell and injured themselves, an injured kayaker and a lost skier. Deputies were called out...
View ArticleFire official: Man burned in Vancouver house fire
A man was injured after a fire at a house in Vancouver’s Maple Tree neighborhood this morning. Crews with the Vancouver Fire Department responded to 6113 N.E. 100th Ave. for a report of a structure...
View ArticleTips lead to Battle Ground church’s stolen trailer found, hit-and-run driver
Officers with the Battle Ground Police Department tracked down a trailer stolen from a local church and cited a driver for hit-and-run after following up on information from tipsters. The department...
View ArticleWoodland teacher earns national fellowship
Katie Klaus, a social studies teacher at Woodland High School, was named Monday as Washington’s James Madison Fellowship Award recipient for 2016, giving her $24,000 to put toward graduate studies and...
View ArticleChild-find screenings available Wednesday
Children ages 3 to 5 residing in the Camas School District boundaries are invited to child-find screenings Wednesday. The free screenings test hearing, vision, speech, concepts and motor development,...
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Builder proposes apartments on Main in downtown
A 116-unit, four-story apartment complex is in the works for a long-vacant downtown lot across from the Clark County Historical Museum. Wilson Architects recently submitted a pre-application to the...
View ArticleRidgefield police chief will retire, again, May 6
After nine years leading the Ridgefield Police Department, Chief Carrie Greene is set to retire on May 6, she announced Monday. She started at her current position in 2007. Greene also worked for the...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 4/19
Monday — 588 adult spring chinook, 4 jack chinook, 21 steelhead. Water temperature: 52.6 degrees. Visibility: 3.5 feet. Streamflow: 327,000 cubic feet per second. Cumulative count through April 18,...
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Sheriff will stop responding to routine auto accidents
Clark County sheriff's deputies will no longer respond to noninjury traffic accidents that aren't blocking traffic, according to a news release issued this morning. Deputies will still respond if there...
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Former Vancouver mayors seek to overturn big pay raises
Two former Vancouver mayors are making moves to overturn Friday's decision by the city salary review commission to more than double the mayor’s salary. Bruce Hagensen, the mayor of Vancouver from 1987...
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Skyview student arrested after bomb threat, evacuation
A ninth grader at Skyview High School was arrested after making a false bomb threat that evacuated the school, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies received a 911 call at 10:17 a.m....
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Feds let Vancouver housing agency keep flexibility
Vancouver Housing Authority is among 39 housing authorities around the country that recently got 12-year extensions on Moving to Work, a demonstration program that allows some flexibility in spending...
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Vancouver’s Instafab fined for serious safety violations
State safety regulators have imposed $30,400 in fines on Instafab, a steel fabrication and installation firm under fire from labor union advocates, for 10 safety violations categorized as "serious" at...
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Woodland Middle school students raise $3,000 for Pennies for Patients
Woodland — Students at Woodland Middle School raised a record $3,000 to donate to the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. For the past 12 years, students at Woodland have taken part in the Pennies for...
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C-Tran expanding parking at its busiest park and ride
On an already tight morning, few things can be as frustrating as the hunt for an empty parking space at a park-and-ride in the moments before the bus arrives. But soon, maybe hundreds of frazzled...
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