Washougal News

Larry Linne, a Camas court security officer, has presented a proposal to Camas councilors that, if approved, would give the city its own court system independent of Clark County District Court.

A proposal to form a new "bureaucratic level" of city government could actually end up saving Camas thousands of dollars.

A lawyer for Pvt. Lazzaric Caldwell of Camp Pendleton, Calif., argues the punishment is inconsistent with the armed forces' efforts to battle a rise in suicides during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Lyman West strokes the fur of his former neighbor's dog Wednesday at the West Columbia Gorge Humane Society in Washougal.

Starting Wednesday, Washougal criminal defendants who cannot afford an attorney will be represented by a Vancouver-based firm whose principal attorney represented Washougal's mayor during his recent legal imbroglio.

A proposal to form a new "bureaucratic level" of city government could actually end up saving Camas thousands of dollars.

A 30-year-old Portland man was sentenced Tuesday in Vancouver to more than three years in prison for the death of his friend who fell out of his car on Highway 14 near Washougal.

J Street, from 39th to 40th streets, was blocked off to traffic for 16 hours on Wednesday and Thursday, due to high water on the roadway.

A one-time president of East County Little League has been charged with embezzling more than $11,000 from the league by writing checks to herself between 2009 and 2010.

Tanya Quinata, a Washougal woman convicted by a Clark County jury of stabbing her boyfriend in the heart in 2010, was sentenced Tuesday to 117 months in prison for first-degree assault.

The cold and dreary Portland winter weather can kill your fitness resolutions. But you can join in free group walks as a social incentive to keep moving.

Metropolitan Performing Arts presents "Into the Woods," featuring a live orchestra and local talent, at Washburn Performing Arts Center in Washougal.

PORTLAND, Ore. The wild weather isn't done with the northwest yet. Late Friday afternoon the National Weather Service issued a freezing rain advisory for the greater Portland and Vancouver metro areas until midnight.

A driver whose passenger fell from a moving convertible on Highway 14 last summer pleaded guilty Thursday to vehicular homicide.

The Camas City Council on Tuesday unanimously approved to extend the current ban on collective medical marijuana gardens for another six months.

Close to 3,400 vehicles use the Cougar Creek Bridge outside Washougal each day, according to Clark County Public Works.

A 64-year-old man and 58-year-old woman, both from Washougal, were treated and released from the hospital after a Sunday afternoon crash near Longview.

Camas and Washougal fire officials painted a rosy picture of their temporary merger's results during a recent Washougal City Council retreat.