Man found in Bagley Downs home shot, died of homicide
The man found dead Monday in a Vancouver home was a victim of homicide and had been shot, according to the Vancouver Police Department. Authorities have not yet released the identity of the man whose...
View ArticleSpring chinook angling reopens Friday
Spring chinook angling in the lower Columbia River will reopen Friday through Sunday, then close again, likely until early June. Washington and Oregon officials on Tuesday approved the three days of...
View ArticleWith 10 days left, 2,000 names on petition
With 10 days until the deadline, organizers of a petition effort to retract the Vancouver city council's recent pay hikes are more than halfway toward their goal of 4,000 signatures. "We're doing very...
View ArticleTrial opens in I-205 crashes that caused man’s death
Is a Vancouver man who is charged in a hit-and-run crash responsible for a subsequent wreck that led to the death of a Samaritan? This is what jurors will decide over the coming days as the trial for...
View ArticleLetter carriers hope to be loaded down for food drive
James Fitzgerald, director of operations at the Clark County Food Bank, would like to see 150,000 pounds of food collected locally during Saturday's National Association of Letter Carriers' Food Drive....
View ArticlePriest guilty of trying to lure girl
A Catholic priest entered a guilty plea Friday, court records show, to trying to lure a 14-year-old girl into his car as she was walking home from school in Vancouver's Image neighborhood. Michael T....
View ArticleFour hurt in single-vehicle crash
Three people reportedly suffered critical injuries and a fourth also was hurt Tuesday night in a car crash near the west Vancouver waterfront. A gray car was spotted speeding on Southeast Columbia Way...
View Article4 hurt in car crash near Vancouver waterfront
Three people suffered serious injuries and a fourth also was hurt tonight in a car crash near the west Vancouver waterfront. A police officer witnessed a gray car speeding on Southeast Columbia Way...
View ArticleDriver seriously injured in single-vehicle crash north of Orchards
A driver sustained serious injuries in a crash early Wednesday morning north of Orchards, according to the Clark County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies were called to the single-vehicle crash in the 15400...
View ArticlePolice: Driver in crash near waterfront to face charges
The driver in a car crash that caused serious injuries Tuesday night near the west Vancouver waterfront faces charges in the incident, according to the Vancouver Police Department. Andrey V. Altman,...
View ArticleFundraiser flamingos for Heritage High stolen from Camas yard
Twenty-four money-making purple plastic flamingos have been nabbed. That, or they’re on the lam. All that Brenda Baker does know is that they’re gone. “They flew the coop,” Baker said. Baker is a...
View ArticleBenton to lose county job as department reorganizes
Sen. Don Benton, R-Vancouver, will lose his county job as part of a reorganization of the Department of Environmental Services, Acting County Manager Mark McCauley said this afternoon. Benton heads...
View ArticleOfficials identify man found dead Monday in Vancouver
The man found dead Monday in a Vancouver home was 31-year-old Fernando Cendejas-Pardo of Vancouver, who died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office. The...
View ArticlePeaceHealth names CFO, three new board members
PeaceHealth announced Wednesday that it has hired Kimberly Hodgkinson as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Hodgkinson comes to the Vancouver-based health care system from St....
View ArticleBeaverton man hurt in fall from Skamania Co. rock face
A Beaverton, Ore., man was hospitalized Wednesday evening after falling 20 to 25 feet from a rock face near the Cape Horn trail in Skamania County. Skamania County Undersheriff Pat Bond said Jerad...
View ArticleC-Tran board OKs route changes
The C-Tran Board of Directors unanimously approved changes to more than a dozen of the transit agency's service routes Tuesday night. The changes "constitute the largest service change C-Tran has had...
View ArticleHerrera Beutler pushes funding to combat Zika virus
U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler is supporting President Barack Obama's efforts to fight the Zika virus despite pushback from her fellow congressional Republicans. "If we do not act now and get ahead of...
View ArticleMan gets 18 years in murder-for-hire plots
A Clark County Jail inmate accused in multiple murder-for-hire plots to kill a witness who planned to testify against him was sentenced to 18 years in prison, court records show. Raymond J. Femling,...
View ArticleSheriff’s Office police dogs receive protective vests
Two more local police dogs have received protective vests thanks to fundraising efforts headed by a Vancouver man. Clark County Sheriff’s Office police dogs Ringo and Jango have received the bullet-...
View ArticleRoadway blocked following car v. motorcycle crash in east Vancouver
Two people riding on a motorcycle were critically injured Thursday in a crash with a car on Northeast 137th Avenue in Vancouver, according to the Vancouver Police Department. One rider lost part of her...
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