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Stolen motorhome leads to 2.5-hour freeway shutdown
An investigation into a stolen motor home on Interstate 205 Saturday led to a 2½-hour freeway shutdown that ended when SWAT team members forced entry and found that the vehicle was unoccupied. The...
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Ho’ike and Hawaiian Festival connects families old and new
Esther Short Park was full of aloha on Saturday. And, as Auntie Ella Stewart will tell you, aloha doesn’t just mean hello and goodbye, but love, family, being thankful. “This festival makes me feel...
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Columbia River Highway: Vancouver trail-builder brings expertise to restoration
STARVATION CREEK STATE PARK, Ore. — Kelly Punteney has a keen eye for great rocks. Most rocks don’t get the time of day from the Vancouver landscape architect, who points out irregularities and...
View ArticleWeather Eye: After that hot stretch, we’re back to cooler days this week
After 93-degree highs Thursday and Friday, we were back in the more tolerable 70s to near 80 on Saturday. We should see more morning clouds today, with cooler temperatures. Highs will be residing in...
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$80 million bond for Battle Ground schools on November ballot
Battle Ground Public Schools will put an $80 million bond issue on the ballot in November to replace campuses and buildings, develop an entirely new K-8 campus and make renovations and improvements...
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Big demand for small homes in Clark County
Real estate agent Tracie DeMars pulled her car up to a small, one-level house set back from the street in the Fruit Valley neighborhood. When it was built in 1942, the two-bedroom, one-bath house with...
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Developers start to think small in Clark County
Roger and Diana Main are moving from the 2,250-square-foot house they built almost two decades ago. Now empty-nesters, the Mains are downsizing to an 1,825-square-foot home with the master suite on the...
View ArticleBonneville Dam fish count 7/31
Saturday — 647 adult summer chinook, 76 jack chinook, 2,296 steelhead, 205 sockeye, 1 pink salmon, 913 shad. Water temperature: 71.3 degrees.
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Bill Bryant urges Clark County Republicans to vote
On his campaign tour of more than two dozen Washington cities, Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant posed a trick question to supporters. “Who do you think elected Jay Inslee?” Bryant asked...
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Bicyclist killed in I-5 crash near Ridgefield
A bicyclist riding on Interstate 5 near Ridgefield was killed in a crash early Monday morning. A male in his late teens or early 20s was riding a bicycle south on the freeway in the left lane when he...
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Arraignment delayed for suspect in Woodland triple homicide
The arraignment for a man potentially facing the death penalty in a Woodland triple homicide case was pushed back to later this month while his attorney conducts further investigation and assembles a...
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Police investigate shooting at Vancouver apartment complex
Major crimes detectives are still learning information about a suspect in a Sunday night shooting at a Vancouver apartment complex. Vancouver police and Clark County sheriff’s deputies were called to...
View ArticleMan rescued from popular Camas swimming hole
A man had to be taken via Life Flight to an area hospital after he jumped from a steep bank into a popular swimming hole in Camas Sunday evening. Crews from Camas-Washougal Fire Department were called...
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Vancouver police seek missing woman
The Vancouver Police Department is asking the public to help locate Janet R.”Mary” Napoleon-Nunn. She is a 71-year-old Alaskan Native, described as 5 feet tall and weighing about 110 pounds. She has...
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Court hears appeal by Sticky’s Pot Shop
The owner of a marijuana store operating in violation of a county moratorium argued his shop’s case before a Clark County Superior Court Judge on Monday. John Larson, who opened Sticky’s Pot Shop at...
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Ballot deadline for primary is Tuesday
Ballots have been coming into the Clark County Elections office in a trickle, not a flood. As of Monday morning, about 44,405 of Clark County’s 260,448 registered voters had returned their ballots,...
View ArticleTeens sentenced in Hazel Dell church fire
Two juveniles who started a fire inside the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Hazel Dell earlier this year have been sentenced in juvenile court. Ammon D. Wells, 15, was sentenced Thursday...
View ArticleDeputy sentenced in domestic violence case
A Clark County sheriff’s deputy who allegedly assaulted his teenage daughter during a struggle over a cellphone was given credit Friday for time served. Timothy E. Boardman, 45, of Vancouver pleaded...
View ArticleClark College trustees to hold annual retreat
The board of trustees of Clark College will hold a special meeting-annual retreat work session from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday in Room 430 at Clark College at Columbia Tech Center, 18700 S.E. Mill Plain...
View ArticleWeather Eye: August is here, but no reason to expect big change in pattern
August greeted us with morning clouds here in the lowlands but rewarded us with clear skies and sunshine in the afternoon. More typical of June, but hey, who’s complaining? This has been a most...
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