Yacolt News

The Vancouver Heritage Ambassadors present their Old City Cemetery Walk this weekend.

A much-anticipated study issued today does not recommend closing the Washington State Reformatory in Monroe to help the state save money.

Members of the Pacific Railcar Operators club took a ride on the Chelatchie Prairie Railroad Oct.

A wildfire that erupted Sunday night in Clark County isn't out, but firefighters are getting it under control.

A new draft report recommends either closing the old buildings at the Washington State Penitentiary in Walla Walla or downsizing a facility on McNeil Island to a minimum-security prison.

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

As autumn settles in, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources wants the public to know about upcoming changes to some of the recreation areas the agency manages.

A church-driven pilot project aimed at combating hunger in rural Clark County will use the month of November to make weekly food box deliveries and test the waters for a permanent effort.

An inmate that escaped from a minimum security prison in southwest Washington state nearly three weeks ago has been caught.

Sorter Peter Middleton helps keep the floor clean around a new sorting machine at West Van Materials Recovery Center on Monday afternoon.

The Old Apple Tree festival is back after a three-year break. Pomeroy Living History Farm Pomeroy Living History Farm's Pumpkin Lane offers a hayride and live entertainment in Yacolt.

DOGPAW Volunteers Dave Santos, foreground, and Nathan Bagent put up fencing Sunday around a 7-acre parcel in Washougal that will be the county's fourth off-leash dog park.

A Yacolt man whose car was hit by a sheriff deputy's patrol SUV this month is recovering from injuries he suffered in the crash.

The Department of Natural Resources is inviting the public to celebrate National Public Lands Day on Saturday by picking up trash and pulling weeds.

Two young dirt-bike riders were taken to a hospital Thursday evening after they lost control and slid into the front of a pickup on Northeast 247th Avenue, south of Yacolt.

The Battle Ground school board on Monday approved a $114.5 million district budget for 2009-10 that's down about $2.25 million, almost 2 percent, from the budget year just ended.

A 7-year-old north county girl was in serious condition Monday, a day after she was crushed between two vehicles.

At around 4 p.m. Sunday Clark County Sheriff's Office and emergency medical responded to 40012 N.E. Rotschy Road where they said a child was crushed between two vehicles while in the driveway.

Bev Muncaster has worked in finance since she was 17, but after being laid off and returning to school to earn her degree, she started at the bottom of the corporate ladder as an unpaid intern.

At around 4 p.m. Sunday Clark County Sheriff's Office and emergency medical responded to 40012 N.E. Rotschy Road where they said a child was crushed between two vehicles while in the driveway.