Battle Ground News

All three southbound lanes of Interstate 5 were closed Wednesday morning after a series of rear-end collisions.

About 13,000 ballots counted Wednesday by Clark County elections workers failed to flip outcomes of any local contests - most notably the Vancouver mayor's race.

Clark County public health employee Kachina Inman gets a seasonal flu shot from her colleague James Lanz in September.

Sharon Brouillette, of Battle Ground, prays during the 8th Annual Mayors Prayer Breakfast at the Hilton Vancouver Washington today.

The staff of Pediment Publishing gathers at the company's Battle Ground office. Business name: Pediment Publishing.

A Morso wood-burning stove. Hearth, Patio & Barbecue Association A Jotul F 500 Oslo wood-burning stove.

Battle Ground school administrators inappropriately took sides in their own school board's race, a state campaign official said Friday.

Battle Ground police and Clark County sheriff's deputies are investigating six reports of pumpkin-smashing vandalism to vehicles that occurred Monday and Tuesday.

BATTLE GROUND, Wash. -- Pumpkins have been the weapons of choice in six recent Clark County, Wash., reports of vandalism to vehicles.

Cassandra Orefice of Battle Ground and Jacquie Brown of Vancouver came away with top honors Saturday in the local arm of the Miss America organization.

Hundreds of volunteers from New Life Friends Church and Crossroads Church, both in Vancouver, descended on a house in the Daybreak area northwest of Battle Ground Oct.

Vancouver City Councilwoman Jeanne Harris faces an energetic challenge from neighborhood activist and retired teacher Anne McEnerny-Ogle in her bid for a fourth term on the council.

Two large fire departments that have grown in size due to mergers are asking voters to give them five-member boards of commissioners, to allow better representation and greater flexibility between meetings.

Bee Tree School, pictured here in the 1920s, was among dozens of tiny schools absorbed by the Battle Ground School District.

Most local schools aren't seeing a dramatic surge in student absences since H1N1 swine flu began circulating through Southwest Washington.

Monday, October 12, 2009 Contact: Marian Lahav, 487-7949 E-mail: Battle Ground, Camas, Clark County, La Center, Ridgefield, Vancouver, Washougal, and Yacolt are cooperating in updating their Shoreline Master Programs.

Sara Emrick watches a balloon expand with carbon dioxide generated by a bottle filled with water, yeast and corn syrup during a lesson on biofuel Wednesday at the Center for Agricultural, Scientific and Environmental Education in Brush Prairie.

Plunging into the East Fork Lewis River pool at Moulton Falls park. Portlanders wanting to get out of town for a day need not travel far to find a place loaded with outdoor attractions and plenty of fall color.

An empty Washougal industrial space could soon be transformed, thanks to a $2 million federal loan awarded to Vancouver-based NCS Power Inc.

The revenue-capping initiative voters will decide Nov. 4 would lock school districts into sharply reduced budgets that have already forced harmful program cuts, crowded classrooms and burdensome student fees, teachers from Clark County's three largest school districts warned at a news conference Tuesday.