Camas News

The Celebrate Freedom Veterans Parade is at 11 a.m. today. The first of Fort Vancouver's annual lantern tours is tonight.

Sean Guard and his wife, Ann Guard, check the computer for election results Tuesday night.

No victor in today's Clark County election is likely to be named among Bill O'Reilly's "Pinheads and Patriots" or excoriated by Keith Olbermann as the "Worst Person in the World." That's because nary a single Republican or Democrat is listed on the ballots .

When it warms your shower water on a cold morning, electricity is a wonderful thing.

Aleo Ochoa lays insulation before crews pour the concrete foundation for the new Hayes Freedom High School in Camas.

Camas, WA, Convergence Training, produces courses on a wide variety of health and safety issues in a range of media formats.

It's beginning to look a lot like winter in Washington with snow in the mountains and flooding rivers.

New jobs should be top priority at the Port of Camas-Washougal, say all four candidates vying for two port commissioner's seats in the Nov.

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.

Referendum 71 foes plan demonstration Dozens of opponents of Washington's "everything but marriage" law for same-sex couples plan to demonstrate against it in east Vancouver this afternoon.

David Darby is vying in the Cemetery District 4 Position 1 race. Josh Fuerstenberg is a candidate in the Cemetery District 6 Position 3 race.

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.

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.

Fire crews Sunday night were battling a quick-moving 30-acre wildfire on state land at the Clark-Skamania border.

A late-season wildfire is burning north of Camas on steep timberland in the Jones Creek Campground area near the Clark and Skamania county line.

Steel baron and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie, below right, donated $10,000 for the construction of the original Fort Vancouver library.

For all the time and effort Clark County residents devote to discussions of public education, a curious statistical reality has emerged in the Nov.

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

Bid Date/Time: Nov. 3, 2009, 4 p.m. The project consists of a single construction contract including general, civil, mechanical, plumbing, electrical and landscaping work for the renovation of Doc Harris Stadium, at 2150 N.E. Ione St.

The Battle Ground school district will also use bond proceeds to upgrade video monitoring at 18 locations, improve several fire alarms and reconfigure a Prairie High parking lot for better safety.