Ridgefield News

What: Toby Keith in concert with Montgomery Gentry, Carter's Chord, Mica Roberts and Trailer Choir.

Leading by example means taking leadership roles, achieving high grades and exhibiting outstanding character.

How done are the Police after this final tour? Very. "Let me put it like this: Everybody's fired," says Stewart Copeland, the punk/reggae/pop band's drummer.

Sterling Design Inc. of Vancouver has submitted plans for an 89-unit single-family home subdivision in the Fairgrounds Neighborhood in Ridgefield.

All too predictably and as anticipated, The Columbian didn't fail to take advantage of one last opportunity to dredge up and publish dirt about my son Chance Mosby, who was found dead June 30.

Potluck on second Mondays. * Nancy, 360-694-3419. TUESDAY LEWIS RIVER ROTARY, 7 a.m. at The Cedars at Salmon Creek, 15001 N.E. 181st St., Brush Prairie.

The stories that ran in The Columbian on June 5, "Substitute teacher accused of slur," and June 6, "Substitute barred from teaching in Camas," carried sensational headlines, but did not do justice to the issues ...

Oversized red-white-and-blue hats? Check. Bagpipers playing "You're a Grand Old Flag?" Check.

One of the oldest maxims among environmentalists and conservationists also presents an interesting paradox: Increasing public access to a pristine area is a good way to help protect it.

Three men who saw a duplex ablaze in the Rosemere neighborhood and pounded on occupants' doors Wednesday awoke a sleeping man and helped firefighters limit the amount of damage.

The 5,100 companies that participated at the technology trade show this spring in Hanover, Germany, impressed Ridgefield businessman Jim Harris.

A man and woman died in a single-car crash in the Ridgefield area late Friday night.

The Clark County Medical Examiners Office has released the names of the deceased in Friday night's fatal vehicle accident.

June 26 - July 2 THURSDAY JUNE 26 SCAM Zinester Erick Lyle gets visionary in On the Lower Frequencies: A Secret History of the City , which takes a unusual approach to "urban archaeology," tracing the evolution ...

Deciding who gets to "walk" at a graduation ceremony is difficult, and there's no way to make everyone happy.

Jeremy Richardson, the man accused of being behind one of the Northwest's largest mortgage finance schemes ever, is now living in Ridgefield.

More than 400 real estate industry players have been indicted since March -- including dozens over the last two days -- in a Justice Department crackdown on incidents of mortgage fraud that have contributed to ...

Washington's treasury will take a $167 million revenue hit over the next three years due to the weakening economy, the state Economic and Revenue Forecast Council was told Thursday.

N. SCOTT TRIMBLE/The Columbian Strawberries on George Hoffman's farm in Ridgefield were more than two weeks late this year, and a third of the crop is a loss as pickers worked the field Tuesday.

Before you get too worked up over the recent rise in mortgage interest rates, consider what really affects how much a loan will cost a month.