Orchards News

A man with a gun held up the Safeway pharmacy near Northeast 63rd Street and Andresen Road on Monday evening and escaped with OxyContin painkiller pills.

The Couv is really lighting it up tonight. With warm weather and a Saturday holiday, the city is full of flashes and booms.

Delta Computer Systems has a new building in Battle Ground's East Commerce Center.

I've written a lot about how the recession is affecting the expansion plans of many national retailers and restaurants.

The several dozen falcons keeping watch over Jim Lott's Burbank blueberry fields are an evolving manifestation of his self-described penchant for "overdoing things." "Once it starts, it almost takes on a life of its own," said the owner of Applegate Orchards.

Veterinary Technician Marilyn Omlor helps a fawn drink goat-milk formula from a lamb bar at Ponti Veterinary Clinic on Tuesday.

Deanna Trushin, 8, was honored Thursday for helping summon rescuers to her home when her grandmother had a heart attack.

The new Angelo Building is nearing completion at 400 E. Mill Plain Blvd. in downtown Vancouver.

Nate Gisby, center, graduated from Clark College on Thursday. The 35-year-old was among several medical radiography students who are making a career change.

Washington's cherry harvest is under way and officials say this could be a state record crop.

The National Weather Service is warning of another shot of heavy rain in Clark County, through 6:15 p.m. tonight At 5:14 p.m., Doppler Radar indicated a west-to-east line of heavy showers continuing over the greater Vancouver area, with heavy rain impacting the Vancouver Mall neighborhood, Brush Prairie, Orchards, Sifton, Hockinson, Camp Bonneville ...

Recent commercial real estate transactions as reported by area brokerage firms. David Gile has leased 500 square feet of office space at Orchards Center, 10411 N.E. Fourth Plain Road, Vancouver, for a driving instruction business.

Boy Scouts Jeff Kreiter, 13, from left, Zach Taylor, 13, Brandon Honrath, 12, and Patrick Moynihan, 17, helped to present a giant flag during the Pledge of Allegiance at Vancouver's 14th consecutive Flag Day program on Sunday.

This Orchards-area former A&W restaurant is set to become the first Vancouver location for Atlanta-based fried chicken chain Church's Chicken.

More than 800 bicycle wayfarer signs have sprouted up around Vancouver recently including this one near the Interstate 5 Bridge.

A stretch of state Highway 503 north of Battle Ground will be renamed the Lewisville Highway to curb confusion.

Several Yakima Valley residents have been selected to serve as officers and board members for the Washington Apple Education Foundation.

A car prowler, chased by a man who heard a noise outside his home Friday night, fired a handgun at the man and escaped with two accomplices, police said.

In the small community of Otis Orchards in Eastern Washington, an age-old question has been answered: why did the chicken cross the road? It turns out the chicken was after a donut.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get a donut, of course. At least, the one in a small Washington town did.