Yacolt News

A southwest Washington man who went missing over the weekend while on a motorcycle ride was found dead today after he apparently crashed his bike into an area not visible from the road.

Tom Koenninger's July 16 opinion column, "Maybe there's a better bridge plan," addressed a need that is clear to many of us, but apparently is not on the radar screen of the Columbia River Crossing task force.

Tell us how you got your job as a director of Dream Team Dental. I'm the person that started it, and the owner of the business.

Sixteen years after county leaders conceived a walking-biking-riding trail along the railroad tracks from Vancouver to Yacolt, a route has been approved.

Vancouver Currently Washington's fourth largest city. 162,400 people, a 1 percent increase from the April 2007 estimate of 160,800. Population has increased by 13.1 percent since April 2000; ranks 84th among ...

Assistant Yacolt Fire Chief Ben Peeler hooked up a satellite telephone to a disc in the woods Saturday and got a dial tone.

A 12-year-old deaf girl was recovering from broken bones and internal injuries today after being hit by a car while walking Wednesday in a rural Clark County roadway, police said.

A hearing-impaired girl who was struck by an SUV west of Battle Ground on Wednesday isn't believed to have been seriously injured, an official said.

The following have applied to the Washington state Liquor Control Board: Everett Charles Mellish, for a license to sell beer and wine at East Fork Roasting Company, 582 Pacific Highway, La Center.

The state fire marshal says an electrical source likely sparked a house fire Friday night in Battle Ground, Wash.

Monday, June 09, 2008 By ERIK ROBINSON, Columbian staff writer Making use of a surprisingly resilient cell phone connection, an alert firefighter found a badly injured all-terrain vehicle rider who had careened ...

Posted by Gail Hill, The Oregonian June 10, 2008 17:54PM At least two large wind-energy developers are eyeing Clark County's Larch Mountain for dozens of 400-foot wind turbines, signaling the industry's ...

Clark County Fire & Rescue in Washington state says that at the present time, telephone lines in the Battleground and Yacolt area with the prefixes 342, 666, and 687 are down.

Friday, June 06, 2008 By JOHN BRANTON, Columbian Staff Writer Repair crews have restored 911 emergency service to areas cut off by a major telelphone outage earlier today.

Friday, May 30, 2008 By GREGG HERRINGTON, Columbian editorial writer Controversies, mysteries and personalities come and go, drifting in and out of the newspapers and our consciousness.

The mother of the two young girls who spent a scary night alone in the wilderness before they got rescued wants to thank everyone who helped them.

Since the early 1970s, Tom McDowell has been involved in finding people - and, on rare occasion, bodies - in the hills and forests of Clark, Cowlitz and Skamania counties.

A search and rescue team is trying to find two girls who became separated from their father during a hike Sunday.

Wind turbines have been in the local news in recent months because they've come across Port of Vancouver docks en route to the windy east side of the Cascade Mountains, where wind farms generate electricity in ...

Two young girls who got separated from their family during a hike and spent a night in the woods were found safe Monday morning, authorities said.