Vancouver News

A 43-year-old California man has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison after pleading guilty to several bank robberies in Washington state.

Vancouver's Big Kmart store on Andresen Road will close in February after 35 years of operation.

Robert James Beiser and Teresa Marie Beiser are shown in a Christmas portrait with their daughter, now 14, and son, now 11.

An early-morning fire destroyed a Vancouver, Wash. duplex and displaced a family of two adults and two children, a Vancouver Fire spokesman said.

Vancouver's city budget will limp through December without any more cuts to the 2009 budget - but city leaders are already sharpening their scalpels for 2010 and beyond.

A 51-year-old Long Beach, Wash., woman was killed and a Vancouver, Wash., man was seriously injured in a head-on crash that closed the Astoria-Megler Bridge across the Columbia River for about four hours.

Vancouver Public Schools said on Monday it had discovered a "security breach" in its payroll data system that threatens the release of district employees' personal information, such as names, birth dates and Social Security numbers.

A girl was hospitalized Friday afternoon after she was struck by a car outside a Vancouver school.

Richard Rintoul, who will conduct the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra this weekend, knows how to keep several balls in the air at the same time.

CLACKAMAS, Ore. - 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.The victim, Yesenia Vehar-Fombona, showed up at the Clackamas County Sheriff's Office on Saturday afternoon to describe her ordeal.

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.

The Vancouver district school board on Tuesday agreed to submit to voters a three-year replacement local tax levy, to be placed on the Feb.

Red, white and blue are the official colors of the Port of Vancouver for a specific reason.

The Vancouver Clinic has opened a breast care center at its Northeast 87th Street building in Vancouver.

A rare tornado touched down Thursday in a residential area of Vancouver, downing power lines, uprooting trees, tossing shopping carts into cars and causing moments of fear.

On the agenda at the State Board of Education this week is a proposal for state intervention in failing schools.

The body of Pfc. Ian Walz returned home this afternoon, 16 days after the Vancouver soldier was killed in Afghanistan.

Changing the name of Clark County's biggest city is once again a topic of discussion in Vancouver both of them.

The FBI is investigating a death threat against Congressman Brian Baird. U.S. Capitol Police spokeswoman Sgt.

The new mayor of Vancouver, Wash. says he's very interested in talking about a possible move of the Triple-A Portland Beavers across the Columbia River to Vancouver.