Western Forest Products laid off Vancouver employees this week after the company’s Columbia Vista sawmill was left inoperable by a devastating fire June 29.

Environmental group Save Our Wild Salmon released its first Columbia River Hot Water Report of the year Wednesday, as water temperatures throughout the basin this year have already surpassed the key 6 ...

Vancouver defense attorney Josephine Townsend’s forgery and identity theft trial is set to begin Monday in Clark County Superior Court.

It’s a bit more than halfway through 2025 and I want to share the best new things I’ve eaten so far this year. This was a tricky list to create because the food scene in Vancouver is exploding. In pas ...

Two Washington state agencies are looking to improve corridors for wildlife while cutting down on traffic risks for motorists and animals.

The One Big Beautiful Bill that Republicans jammed through Congress represents a $4 trillion fraud foisted on the American people. Even though the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that ex ...

It’s often said music is the universal language of humanity. Now a 12-year-old Houston boy is putting that to the test for an unlikely audience — man’s best friend.

For more information, call Clark County Public Health at 564-397-8428 or visit In the health department’s scoring system, the fewer the points, th ...

A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum.

One of the biggest spending items in the Republican budget bill has hardly gotten any attention: $170 billion for an unprecedented crackdown on immigration. By some calculations, it would make the ann ...

The Social Security Administration was in error and possibly illegal in an email generally sent to senior citizens on July 3. The email invoked the SSA’s name in offering partisan opinion, spin and de ...

Often the best movies of the second half of the year come almost preordained as the Oscars Industrial Complex revs into high gear. The first half, though, can offer more of a thrill of discovery.