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Press Talk: What drives Madore?
If you laid out all the complaints, lawsuits and other stupid stuff Republican County Councilor David Madore is involved with, the pile would reach from here to the doorsteps of Hell … Michigan. I’m...
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Pups and People Meetup a play date with a cause
On a drizzly Saturday afternoon, Sadie, Molly, Winston, Keeta and Hudson lounged around the patio at Latte Da Coffeehouse and Wine Bar in Vancouver. But the new friends weren't sipping on coffee or...
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Letter carriers collect 72 percent as much food as in 2015
Clark County postal employees and community volunteers collected an estimated 100,000 pounds of food during the annual letter carriers food drive Saturday. James Fitzgerald, operations manager for the...
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Inmates switched cells, ID bracelets, clothes in escape plot
When a convicted felon switched ID bracelets with a fellow inmate scheduled for release and walked out of the Clark County Jail on Thursday, no one immediately noticed. Nor did they notice when the men...
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Local, state lawmakers split on Trump
Before U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler considers supporting her party's presidential nominee, there's one comment in particular she would like Donald Trump to clarify. Recall that back in June, long...
View ArticleWeather Eye: Last half of this month looking like ‘usual’ May
Talk about a mood swing. The month of May continues to surprise us. Take Friday afternoon with temperatures in the mid 80s, some 20 degrees above average, to Saturday afternoon temperatures that were...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 5/15
Saturday — 2,068 adult spring chinook, 351 jack chinook, 37 steelhead, 750 shad. Water temperature: 58.7 degrees. Visibility: 3.5 feet. Streamflow: 271,930 cubic feet per second.
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Do Clark County fee waivers add up?
Proponents of Clark County's blanket fee waivers have made some big claims to tout the program's success. "The floodgates to local private jobs are open and Free Enterprise is choosing Clark County,"...
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Evergreen Public Schools employee honored by state
Melanie Green recalls a day she'd taken blankets to a homeless family with young children living in a tent in a field near the Orchards Fred Meyer. The homeless shelters were full. The Winter...
View ArticlePolice seek missing, endangered Camas woman
The Camas Police Department requests the public’s help with finding a 23-year-old Camas woman who left her home this morning during what her family called a manic episode, according to police. The...
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52 activists arrested in climate protest
SEATTLE -- Authorities cleared the railroad tracks of protesters and arrested 52 climate activists Sunday morning in north of Seattle after a two-day shutdown. About 150 people spent the night in tents...
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Greening up Vancouver, one depaving project at a time
Volunteers used sledge hammers, powered asphalt cutters and pointed pry bars to demolish part of the parking lot of Everyday Deals on Sunday in Vancouver's Rose Village neighborhood. It was the first...
View ArticleOff Beat: Her family’s story, Mount St. Helens intertwined
Anna Lowe wanted to know more about her grandfather, who was killed when Mount St. Helens erupted 36 years ago. Lowe was born in 1981 and never met him. Donald Parker, his wife, Natalie, and his nephew...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 5/16
Sunday — 2,036 adult spring chinook, 339 jack chinook, 48 steelhead, 1,230 shad. Water temperature: 58.7 degrees. Visibility: 4 feet. Streamflow: 261,800 cubic feet per second.
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CyberKnife best-kept secret in prostate cancer fight
It's quick. It's painless. It's covered by insurance. And it's among the best-kept secrets in treating prostate cancer. Meet the CyberKnife Robotic Radiosurgery System, a $3 million machine that...
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Woodland couple rebuilding after fire
WOODLAND -- Jenny Stanton-Johnson watched the fire dance around the sky while crackling sounds echoed through her 16-acre Woodland property, but all she could focus on was the smell of roasting pig....
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Benton had hands full juggling his two jobs
State Sen. Don Benton announced in January he was retiring after serving 22 years in the Washington Legislature. It was a difficult decision, he said, given his love for public service. He placed the...
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Morning Press: Fee waiver, jail escape, food drive
What's on tap for this week's weather? Check our local weather coverage. In case you missed them, here are some of the top stories of the weekend: What did the fee waivers buy Clark County? Proponents...
View ArticleRescuers respond to reports of multiple hikers in need on Mount St. Helens...
Law enforcement and search and rescue personnel helped track down multiple hikers in distress lost in poor conditions on Mount St. Helens Saturday evening. More than 500 hikers had registered to summit...
View ArticlePolice: Woman pulls gun to stop assault by ex during Gifford Pinchot camping...
Police say a woman pulled a gun on her ex-boyfriend to stop an attack during a camping trip in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest over the weekend. The woman called the Skamania County Sheriff’s...
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