Fire District 2 sponsors open house
Woodland – Clark County Fire District 2 will host an open house from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday at the fire station, 314 N.W. 389th St., Woodland. Guests can meet the commissioners and fire department...
View ArticleWildlife refuge to hold Second Sunday event
Ridgefield – Contemporary masks inspired by native cultures of the Columbia River will be on display at the Cathlapotle Plankhouse at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge next month. From 12 p.m....
View ArticleCounty auditor’s office wins award
Vancouver – For the second year in a row, the Clark County Auditor’s Office has received a top award from the Association of Local Government Auditors. The office received the Knighton Award for its...
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Church arsons investigation continues
Less than a month ago, fire investigators were stretched thin by a string of three church arsons that occurred within a five-day period. Local and federal agencies joined forces to find out who was...
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Clark County grows increasingly diverse
Clark County is the most rapidly diversifying county in the Portland metropolitan area, thanks primarily to its youngest residents. As older, whiter generations die, they're being replaced by a more...
View ArticleWoodland boy honored for saving brother
WOODLAND — Jack Tapani was playing outside on April 29 with his younger brother, Louis, when their parents stepped inside for a moment. With no adults outside, it was up to Jack, 11, to spring into...
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Columbia River fishing report June 23
Summer chinook angling in the lower Columbia continues — not great, but not bad — plus steelhead and sockeye are adding to the catch. The catch per unit of effort, including steelhead and sockeye, was...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 6/23
Wednesday — 3,392 adult summer chinook, 201 jack chinook, 529 steelhead, 17,352 sockeye, 83,666 shad. Water temperature: 64.1 degrees.
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Trusty Brewing Co. gets off to promising start in downtown Vancouver
According to newspaper folklore, there was plenty of beer drinking going on between editions back in the day. So it's only fitting that one of Vancouver's newest breweries should be housed in The...
View ArticleBus stop no longer served by Route 157
PORTLAND — Starting Monday, the TriMet stop on the north side of Northeast Wheeler Avenue along Williams Avenue will move. The stop’s new location won’t be served by C-Tran Route 157 because of...
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Bridgeview hopes for $1.69M more in help
If you win the lottery, Bridgeview's executive director Jan Wichert has an idea for how to spend the winnings. About $1.69 million is needed to start construction on a new education and employment...
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Summer break for museum
Within a month or so, some longstanding features at the Clark County Historical Museum will be history. The downtown museum will take a summer break for remodeling. The closure will start in late July...
View ArticleFire officials: Vancouver police officer likely helped save jogger’s life
A Vancouver police officer ran nearly three-quarters of a mile along Lacamas Lake to reach a man who’d collapsed with heart problems this week, and the Camas-Washougal Fire Department said the...
View ArticleAuto theft rate up 10% locally, down statewide
The rate of vehicle thefts in the Portland metropolitan increased by 10 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to a new report from a collection of insurance companies, but the total number of vehicle...
View ArticleSuspect in child rape case appears in court
A convicted sex offender accused of raping a 9-year-old boy made a first appearance Thursday in Clark County Superior Court. Carsie J. Tikka, 36, of Spokane appeared on suspicion of two counts of...
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Gleaners gather bounty of berries for ‘great cause’
FRUIT VALLEY -- Bending down on one knee, Miriam Bates plucked a plump raspberry from a bush and dropped it into a three-quart ice cream tub. She'd already filled nearly two containers with the fragile...
View ArticleDowntown Vancouver stabbing sends woman to hospital
A woman was stabbed in the arm and stomach in downtown Vancouver early Saturday morning, sending her to the hospital with nonlife-threatening injuries. The suspect in the case, Erin Lauris Fee, 37, of...
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Fire damages Vancouver home, displacing nine
Seven puppies died in a fire at a two-bedroom home Saturday in downtown Vancouver’s Hough neighborhood. Nine uninjured residents and nine other pets were displaced. Firefighters responded at about...
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Kindness by association: House paint, help for neighbor
It was a beautiful day to sleep in, sip lemonade, saunter through the park or roll up your sleeves and help a neighbor out. In Vancouver's Maplewood neighborhood, a handful of people took that last...
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Vancouver to consider 3 more marijuana stores for total of 12
Vancouver could be getting more pot shops. The city council will consider expanding the number of marijuana stores from nine to 12 at its meeting Monday. Earlier this year, the state Liquor and...
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