Battle Ground News

One of the fastest-growing uses for closed-loop hydraulic controls is in the area of production testing, where ensuring that products meet specifications for strength or number of operating cycles is required.

Two Southwest Washington fire agencies are asking for the public's help in providing the needy with coats, blankets and toys this winter season.

Bob Kellum uses a grinder to finish a stained concrete floor Oct. 2 in Tacoma. Bonnie Wyatt has a stained concrete floor with a sun carved into it in her Seattle home.

A Vancouver man was arrested by Clackamas County sheriff's deputies Saturday evening after he forced his former girlfriend at gunpoint to pull over on I-205, from where she was taken to a remote area near Battle Ground, escaping with the man's gun after he fell asleep.

She did what she had to do to stay alive. Now deputies have her ex-boyfriend in custody charged with attempted murder and first-degree kidnapping.

At 12:12 p.m. Saturday, November 14, 2009, a frightened Spanish speaking female came to the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office, reporting she had been shot at while traveling along I-205 near SW Stafford Road and was forced to accompany this armed suspect to an unidentified remote location near Battle Ground, Washington.

Sheriff's deputies say a Beaverton woman escaped with the help of a passerby after her ex-boyfriend shot at her car along Interstate 205, kidnapped her and brought her to Washington state.

A Battle Ground woman faces a vehicular homicide charge after she allegedly drove drunk and caused a May crash that later killed her passenger.

How low can they go? It's a pressing question not just for Clark County homeowners whose property values have plunged since early 2008, but also for local educators.

Two Daybreak Middle School students will be arraigned Nov. 20 on weapons charges for allegedly having a loaded .22-caliber handgun at school.

Vancouver police are reporting a flare-up of car prowls in the city's east side, including smash-and-grabs that leave drivers with broken car windows - and missing laptops, navigation units, wallets, cell phones and more.

All three southbound lanes of Interstate 5 were closed Wednesday morning after a series of rear-end collisions.

About 13,000 ballots counted Wednesday by Clark County elections workers failed to flip outcomes of any local contests - most notably the Vancouver mayor's race.

Clark County public health employee Kachina Inman gets a seasonal flu shot from her colleague James Lanz in September.

Sharon Brouillette, of Battle Ground, prays during the 8th Annual Mayors Prayer Breakfast at the Hilton Vancouver Washington today.

The staff of Pediment Publishing gathers at the company's Battle Ground office. Business name: Pediment Publishing.

A Morso wood-burning stove. Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association A Jotul F 500 Oslo wood-burning stove.

Battle Ground school administrators inappropriately took sides in their own school board's race, a state campaign official said Friday.

Battle Ground police and Clark County sheriff's deputies are investigating six reports of pumpkin-smashing vandalism to vehicles that occurred Monday and Tuesday.

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. -- Pumpkins have been the weapons of choice in six recent Clark County, Wash., reports of vandalism to vehicles.