La Center News

Cardroom dealers can be hit with $300 fines for allowing minors to gamble, but currently there are no penalties for the juveniles themselves.

The name of a drowning victim whose body was recovered Thursday night from Paradise Point State Park was released Friday by the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office.

Sgt. Dan Petersen stood by a cannon in the Confederate Artillery Camp and explained the nuances of the "3-inch ordnance rifle" before him.

A 28-year-old man was found dead Thursday evening after he disappeared while swimming in the east fork of the Lewis River near La Center, Wash.

This is probably the first tri-species request we've ever made on this editorial page: On behalf of harried humans, panicky pooches and fearful felines across our fabulous Clark County, could we please have complete compliance with fireworks curfews this year? OK, "complete" might be an unreasonable expectation.

Decline to sign petition As its executive director and on behalf of YWCA Clark County, I ask Washington voters: Please support registered domestic partnerships and decline to sign Referendum 71 petitions.

Lonnie Hancock After his first attempt to get into World War II, he had to hitchhike home.

Tran rolled out its new fleet of diesel-electric hybrid buses last July. Vancouver is questioning if the city should have more control over C-Tran, a move that might be seen as a power play by some and simply a matter of fairness by others.

A Vancouver methamphetamine dealer was sentenced Monday to five years and three months in federal prison.

Despite pressure from Mayor Jim Irish's staff and city residents, three city council members remained firm Wednesday on not wanting to talk about a casino deal with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

The Clinton Johnson Band is Danny Clinton, left, and Vince Johnson. Johnson, the band's primary songwriter, has written more than 300 songs, 10 of which will end up on the group's first album in June.

Ridgefield High School senior Skylar Jones, 18, left, and her mother Theresa, lost their fight to allow Skylar to walk at graduation.

City of Battle Ground: Position 1, Michael J. Ciraulo; Position 2, Phil Haberthur; Position 4, Michael Dalesandro; Position 5, Adrian Cortes, Alexander Reinhold; Position 6, Bill Ganley.

Here we go again. Once again, the La Center City Council will debate whether it's time to cut a deal with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe.

It can't go on like this forever. If you include benefits, public payrolls regularly grow by 5 percent every year.

A Clark County judge knocked back an environmental challenge to the county's 2007 urban growth plan Thursday, increasing the chance that hundreds of acres of current and former farmland will be developed.

A Clark County judge overruled environmentalists' challenge to the county's 2007 urban growth plan Thursday, increasing the chance that hundreds of acres of current and former farmland will be developed.

Gregoire is no ideologue I wholeheartedly agree with the praise of Gov. Chris Gregoire in a May 17 editorial, "Disloyal Democrat," for governing as a leader rather than an ideologue.

Single-cart recycling is coming to almost 40,000 households in Vancouver. The city council gave the informal nod Monday to every-other-week collection, a change from weekly collection, at no additional cost to the consumer.

OK, so I've had better weeks. - We filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy. - The cards didn't seem to be falling our way.