Ridgefield News Archives

Lead singer Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam performs during a concert at the Clark County Amphitheater Saturday September 26, 2009.

Great Western Malting Co. is brewing up a business expansion at the Port of Vancouver.

In its fight to keep aquatic invasive species out of Washington waters, all northbound vehicles transporting watercraft past the Ridgefield weigh station on Interstate 5 will be required to stop for an inspection Friday.

Fans fills most of the seats up front as a crowd gathers to watch Larry the Cable Guy perform Aug.

Some 400 people who have had hip, knee and shoulder replacement surgery took a stroll Sunday during the Ambulation Celebration.

Bob Weir, still bummed that he didn't maximize the band's earnings by selling Working Man's Dead exclusively at Sears.

U.S. Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., has announced that funding for Southwest Washington transportation and economic development priorities in the fiscal year 2010 Senate Transportation, Housing and Urban Development Appropriations bill has passed the full Senate.

In a county that prosecuted 103 cases of pursuit last year, any new device that might stop a fleeing car is likely to attract interest from police.

Sheriff's deputies say they've identified the man who was killed Friday by an Amtrak train as it crossed the Lewis River south of Woodland.

A Ridgefield, Wash., company thinks it has designed the next big tool in police pursuits - a bumper-mounted pneumatic spike strip that doesn't require police officers to leave their cars to use it.

The Campfires and Candlelight event features re-enactors portraying people from Fort Vancouver and the nearby area from as far back as the 1840s.

Rescuers rushed to the mouth of the North Fork of the Lewis River on Thursday evening after a small catamaran sailboat capsized with two men aboard and ended up in some shallows on the Columbia River.

Principal Patricia Erdmann, rear center, greets students as they enter the new Grass Valley Elementary School on Wednesday.

Children arrive for the first day at their new school, Grass Valley Elementary, in Camas on Wednesday.

Dustin Leitzell is at home today recovering from a crash that killed four of his friends last month.

A Ridgefield, Wash., teen who survived an Aug. 10 collision that killed four friends is heading home after three weeks in a Portland hospital.

A Ridgefield, Wash., teen who survived an Aug. 10 collision that killed four friends is heading home after three weeks in a Portland, Ore., hospital.

Rider, a Belgian sheepdog from Ridgefield, Wash., ran headlong into a wheelbarrow.

The city of Ridgefield is finishing up an $868,000 road improvement project, just east of Union Ridge business park on South 82nd Avenue.