Yacolt News

Inspired by Independence Day, Briella Smithline, 10, chalks up her square Friday on West Yacolt Road as part of the town's Fourth of July festivities.

There might not be a fireworks display near Fort Vancouver this evening, but fireworks figure prominently into several events in Clark County and the region.

Fifteen volunteers with the Volcano Rescue Team late Tuesday night were ascending Mount St.

The most recent local pollution repair is the Port of Vancouver's project to remove industrial solvent from groundwater in the Fruit Valley area.

A father ran over his 2-year-old son Monday morning in Yacolt by accident when the child wandered outside and into the path of his car, sheriff's deputies said Tuesday.

The Clark County Historical Museum will celebrate its 45th birthday on May 24. Are you looking for ways to make the most of your free time? Here is our list of entertainment highlights for this weekend.

A second defendant will be sent to a state hospital for a mental evaluation before standing trial in the November attack on a man who was kidnapped, beaten, stabbed and left near Moulton Falls.

Riders can select from a variety of routes that are part of the Ride Around Clark County event.

It's forest fire season in Washington state. Given the drippy spring we've endured in South Sound, that fact is hard to grasp.

Readers must fill in the blanks Kathie Durbin's March 29 front page Columbian story, "Cut-heavy budgets promise pain," tells of the pain to be inflicted by cuts in Washington state's budget.

Here's one more reason not to trust the mainstream, left-wing, socialist, Marxist, yellow-dog, bleeding-heart, unpatriotic, elitist, liberal media: CNN.com recently reported on "Five cool day trips around the country," and not one of the dreamy drives is in the Pacific Northwest.

Jared Halberg lifts a wall into place at the new Grass Valley Elementary School on Feb.

An Amboy woman who told sheriff's deputies she carries a revolver when she jogs tripped, fell and shot herself in the shin Wednesday.

A winter weather advisory remains in effect until 11 p.m. today for the Vancouver metro area, as cold, wet weather brings rain and possibly snow.

Hypothetically, should Yacolt voters get to vote on a library in Ridgefield when only Ridgefield taxpayers would pay for it and only Ridgefield residents would use it? Of course not.

Many of the rolling hills north of the East Fork of the Lewis River might be opened to denser rural development under a plan tentatively backed by two county commissioners Wednesday.

A Bellevue man was on his second bungee jump from the 200-foot high Canyon Creek Bridge near Yacolt when the cord snapped.

The door may have opened here this month to hasten the arrival of commuter rail in Clark County.

Sam Adams dusts snow from his pickup Tuesday morning at his home off McCann Road in Vancouver.

The snow has been steady in Yacolt and Amboy since around 5 a.m., but hasn't yet reached 1 inch.