Brush Prairie News

Normally our weather turns hot after the Fourth of July but this year the forecast charts show a low currently spinning off the coast to park itself over the Pacific Northwest for most of the coming week.

Jessica McMahon of Eugene, Ore., rides Buddy around a barrel during barrel races at a previous Fort Vancouver Rodeo.

LAURELWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH, 17015 N.E. Sixth St., Vancouver, is offering a free summer series, First Aid for Families, with advice for dealing with conflicts, raising strong-willed children, bitterness and forgiveness in relationships, anger management and problem solving.

Cinematographer John Harrison , 28, a 1998 graduate of Hudson's Bay High School, won his second consecutive student Oscar award this month.

Washougal artisan Kerianne Christie of Titania Blossoms gives old clothes new life by creating pieces such as this felted ladybug capelet.

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.

The National Weather Service is warning of another shot of heavy rain in Clark County, through 6:15 p.m. tonight At 5:14 p.m., Doppler Radar indicated a west-to-east line of heavy showers continuing over the greater Vancouver area, with heavy rain impacting the Vancouver Mall neighborhood, Brush Prairie, Orchards, Sifton, Hockinson, Camp Bonneville ...

What can be done to prevent chrysanthemums from flowering too early in the season? Last summer they flowered in July and August and did not look too great in September and October.

By Eric Degerman, sportstricities.com If you saw the Outdoors page on the back of the sports section in Saturday's Herald, you likely were wowed by a couple of photos that outdoors editor Kevin McCullen chose for the user-generated "Your Adventures" feature.

A 19-year-old woman was taken to a hospital Monday evening after a head-on collision in the 15200 block of Northeast 182nd Avenue in Hockinson.

Unperturbed by the nearly 90-degree heat, Ashley Huff attempts a ring toss with her grandmother, Teri Huff, at Hockinson Fun Days Saturday afternoon.

Thursday's ruling by Superior Court Judge Robert Harris that would allow a greater development of Clark County farmland than allowed by a state board last year is troubling, but not totally so.

Praise of youth well deserved It seems we hear so much about the kids who are always in trouble, but the fine, upstanding ones get little press.

If a real estate zoning dispute could ever qualify as a "fiasco," it'd look a lot like the still-unbuilt asphalt plant in the heart of Brush Prairie.

Consider annual levy for fireworks We all owe a debt of gratitude to BNSF Railway for the most generous donation of $20,000 to the 2010 Vancouver fireworks show.

A driver and her passenger were injured early Saturday in a crash in the Brush Prairie area, the Clark County Sheriff's Office reported.

Idaho-based grocery store chain WinCo Foods is planning to construct a new, 94,000-square-foot store in Clark County, according to a report by The Columbian.

No one was reported injured Tuesday after a car crashed into a Bank of America building in Battle Ground at 10:45 a.m. Tuesday.

Faced with heavy public opposition, Clark County commissioners Tuesday approved a sharply scaled-back plan to let certain developments escape a big fee hike that was scheduled in 2007.

Taxpayers and developers fumed at one another Tuesday over a proposal by county commissioners to cut struggling home builders a multimillion-dollar break.