Vancouver News

An educator and Columbia River Crossing opponent is running in the 49th Legislative District this election season against incumbent state Rep.

Vancouver-based On Line Support has promoted John Sauer to vice president of sales and marketing.

Carl MacDonald, a patron at the Clearwater Saloon in East Wenatchee, Wash., takes a cigarette break.

Reading the history on sandhill cranes in the Northwest is like trying to "follow the bouncing ball." Population numbers have fluctuated widely over the past 150 years.

Alayna Higdon reacts Tuesday when a Clark County jury acquitted her and John Eckhart of unlawful imprisonment in connection with their practice of locking Eckhart's two autistic sons in a bedroom secured with a cage-like door.

Larch Corrections Center near Yacott, Washington has instituted a cat foster program in its minimum securoty facility, known as the Cuddly Catz program.

Mersedes Mendez checks out some microscopic critters at a past Family Field Trip Day at Columbia Springs Environmental Education Center in Vancouver.

Hard liquor made its sales debut Friday, as Clark County grocery stores unveiled shelves of glass and plastic bottles in shades ranging from jewel-toned blues to frosted white and smokey-brown hues.

The east and south barracks at Fort Vancouver are becoming part of the national historic site.

Along with a cart of groceries, Lester Johnstone buys liquor at the Sehome Haggen store on the first day of private liquor sales Friday June 1, 2012 in Bellingham.

Vancouver police are searching for these three people who met with the driver involved in a fatal hit-and-run crash in Vancouver last month.

The Portland-based grocer began selling spirits at its Vancouver store June 1, which was the first day for private liquor sales in Washington state following a voter-approved ballot measure that ended that state's control over liquor sales.

ARC hosts Uncommon Vision, June 8 to 10, featuring dog portraits, special effects makeup and pianist Sarah Hagen, among others.

Los Gatos Patch Whiz Kid Sudarshan Seshadri, 16, will be representing the state in the upcoming Denker Tournament of High School Champions Aug.

Former Clark County Sheriff's Deputy Ed Owens filed a lawsuit Thursday alleging he was wrongly fired for speaking up about what he says were faulty gun safes that allowed his son to get access to a gun and shoot and kill himself.

Steven Lane/The Columbian Jennifer Smith of Vancouver worries changes to the state Medicaid managed care plans will mean her daughter, 7-year-old Bridget Smith, will need to find a new provider.

Shelves at Grand Central Fred Meyers in Vancouver are labeled and empty, waiting for stocking with liquor bottles beginning tonight at midnight.

A 50-year-old Hazel Dell man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of having child pornography, according to a Vancouver police news release.

Vancouver-Clark Parks & Recreation Director Pete Mayer said Thursday that he will resign to take a job in Snohomish County.

Dennis L. Wolter, charged with aggravated first-degree murder, is pictured here in May 2011.