Clark County News

A 22-year-old Vancouver man who, along with two accomplices, used a taxi as a getaway car was sentenced to nearly four years in prison for the April 11 robbery of the Salmon Creek branch of iQ Credit Union.

After the Legislature failed to complete its work earlier this year, Gov. Jay Inslee dispatched several signals indicating he would participate more aggressively in the special session.

Clark County mothers prepare, trade meals to save money, cut time spent preparing food while ensuring participants enjoy healthful, homemade dinners Julia Schetky shows off some of the meals she received at a moms group food swap last month, while her son, Ethan, checks out the other food in the freezer at the family home in Salmon Creek.

Sometimes tardy is timely. Wash. Corrections Officer Brandy Boyer says if she hadn't been 10 minutes late leaving for work Saturday morning she wouldn't have spotted a prison escapee.

Stewardship lead Kate Conley joined the Columbia Land Trust earlier this year. The Vancouver-based nonprofit, founded in 1990, now has a staff of about two dozen employees.

A partially submerged boat will likely remain along at the bank of the Columbia River near Who's Song and Larry's until mid-June. Richard Beechler, the vessel's owner, is unemployed and can't afford to have the boat removed.

Interim Vancouver Police Chief Chris Sutter has been released from the hospital after he collapsed at the Law Enforcement Memorial Ceremony this morning.

Preparing for an influx of patients in October, Legacy Salmon Creek Medical Center has kicked off a $6 million project to remodel and equip a portion of the hospital, including the addition of four labor and delivery rooms, and one new surgical suite.

Sued by her own son, a Clark County, Wash., woman seized the opportunity to resolve the debit card civil-theft case by appearing on the CBS television program Swift Justice with Jackie Glass .

A Clark County fire official says a 75-year-old woman out to celebrate her birthday at a southwest Washington restaurant crashed into the front of the building instead but no one was hurt.

O.J. Simpson appears in court at Clark County Regional Justice Center in Las Vegas, Monday, May 13, 2013.

Vancouver Mayor Tim Leavitt, Ridgefield Mayor Ron Onslow and Washougal Mayor Sean Guard were among those who showed up Monday morning at the Clark County Elections Office to file for re-election. The three mayors were joined at about 9 a.m. by Donald Stose, a Ridgefield city councilor, and Dean Bloemke, a commissioner for Clark County Fire District ... (more)

O.J. Simpson was back in a Las Vegas courtroom on Monday to ask for a new trial in the armed robbery-kidnapping case that sent him to prison in 2008.

A registered sex offender who poses a risk to reA -offend has recently moved to an area north of Vancouver's Bagley Downs neighborhood, according to the Clark County Sheriff's A Office.

Master Gardner Foundation of Clark County volunteer Nancy Morgan checks people out at the Mother's Day Plant Sale at Heritage Farm on Sunday.

As you sniff the air, you're perceiving the world through a method that almost all of Earth's creatures have used for more than 600 million years.

Cheers: To Suzan L. Clark for her recent appointment as Superior Court judge. Unlike at least one other recent appointment in Clark County, this one was thoroughly vetted, and the appointee is eminently qualified.

After Jennifer Bournef found a cute little house for rent in Vancouver on Craigslist, she packed up a U-Haul with all her belongings and moved from Springfield, Ore.

Joseph Reilly and his mother, Terrina Vough, said they were looking forward to heading home to Winslow, Ariz., after four and a half months of hospitalization and physical therapy.

Taxable retail sales in Washington reached $109.1 billion in 2012, up 5.1 percent compared to 2011, the Washington State Department of Revenue reported Thursday.