Battle Ground News

Fort Vancouver Regional Library has sold its former Battle Ground Library on Main Street for $140,000 to buyer Toney Nam in a deal that closed Tuesday.

A slumping economy has cooled Clark County's once-sizzling population growth, knocking it down to almost a 25-year low.

Vancouver residents Marlene Wedin, center left, and Tina Denham admire a dress made of recycled gift bows and ribbons, as modeled Saturday by last-minute substitute Chase McNeill, 23, from Portland, and designed by Evelyn Noriega, 29, from Portland, right, at the Recycled Arts Festival.

Delta Computer Systems has a new building in Battle Ground's East Commerce Center.

As deadlines for school budgets loom, Battle Ground Public Schools has calculated that four of its teachers will likely lose their jobs and class sizes will get bigger.

Winston Farber, 35, right, pleaded guilty in Clark County Superior Court on Wednesday to stealing $25,000 from two Clark County women who gave him the money to start a pellet business.

Gary Thomson of Battle Ground polishes the wheels of his 1971 Chevy C-10 pickup at an east Vancouver classic car cruise.

As the high school graduation season winds down , the tendency is for students and parents to celebrate and relax.

Returning Front and First streets to two-way thoroughfares and adding more directional signs were two long-term goals added to the city of Port Angeles' comprehensive plan this week.

Do you own a dial-gauge pressure canner? Did you know that it should be checked annually for accuracy? The WSU Cooperative Extension Food Advisor volunteers will test gauges, check sealing rings and safety valves, and answer questions about using the canner and its care and storage.

Photos by ZACHARY KAUFMAN/The Columbian Witness Patrick Muonio, right, uses Tayler Johnson, center, to demonstrate 'bucking,' a torture technique used during the Civil War.

Gary Brooks and Allyn Hughes use before and after photos of the eruption of Mount St.

Despite trying economic times, more than 125 people signed up last week to run for public office in Clark County.

It's great to leave Interstate 5 and get on the road to Battle Ground, and know it's going to Battle Ground because the road has a name, not just a number.

Rhetoric of hate has consequences As a physician, I'm shocked and deeply saddened over the murder of Dr.

Convicted sex offender Paul F. Miller during his April 1 court appearance. Paul F. Miller Convicted sex offender A Battle Ground man pleaded guilty Wednesday to 11 felony counts of child sexual abuse against three victims.

Wednesday, June 03, 2009 Contact: Brian Potter, Vancouver-Clark Parks and Recreation, 619-1123 E-mail: The recent warm weather has inspired many local residents to get outside and enjoy some of the wonderful public parks available throughout our community.

Two gunmen robbed the Safeway store at 11696 N.E. 76th St. early Sunday, tying up employees in a back room, the Clark County Sheriff's Office said.

In fire stations and police stations, school hallways and city halls, the talk this summer will be about something almost unheard of: pay freezes.

Photographers at the Travel Portland magazine shoot took so many pictures that Battle Ground actor and model Glenn Alan Pierce worried they'd end up using one of him looking away from the camera.