A juvenile tree swallow looks prime to make its first flight at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in June. The tree swallow is a beneficial bird species, as it is an insectivore that often feeds ...

With high school and college commencements wrapping up, employers now worry about the graduates’ preparedness to enter the work world. This year, 3.9 million students graduated from our high schools, ...

Area high school athletes were named to Greater St. Helens (GSHL) and Trico all-league teams for their individual successes ...

After 35 years, the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Kent – the only specialized medical facility in western Washington caring for drug-exposed babies – stopped accepting new intakes on ...

What began as a modest monthly potluck in the 1970s is now a cornerstone of the community for over 600 seniors in north Clark County. On Monday, June 23, Battle Ground Senior Citizens Inc. (BGSC) ...

The Clark County Council on Tuesday approved reallocating funds to cover a $4.1 million shortfall in the Clark County Jail work center’s medium-security housing unit expansion project after all ...

Washington utilities, tribes, counties and others have spent years planning how to use the state’s $1.2 billion chunk of a federal program to improve high-speed internet access. But earlier this month ...

Grant House Ghost Tour: 2:30-4 p.m., Sunday, July 20, The Grant House Willful Wine, 1101 Officers Row, Vancouver. Learn about the five resident ghosts at The Grant House during an educational tour.

It has been 25 days since Travis Decker picked up his three young daughters for an afternoon visit, then allegedly ended their lives by asphyxiation near a campground in Chelan County. Since then, ...

Standing on land her family once farmed, Bonnie Claiborne Harris looked out at a crowd gathered to celebrate the groundbreaking of Ridgefield’s third elementary school and saw a legacy fulfilled. “I’m ...

Area high school athletes were named to Greater St. Helens (GSHL) and Trico all-league teams for their individual successes this spring. A refresher of who was named from coverage zone high schools to ...

Battle Ground Public Schools is debuting a new high school swim program for students at both Prairie and Battle Ground high schools. The boys' and girls' swim teams will practice at the Clark County ...