Skamania County News Archives

Skamania County is proving to be a popular place for mexican drug cartels. For the second time this month, deputies found a large pot grow in Dog Creek about 10 miles east of Stevenson.

The 1980 eruption destroyed Mount St. Helens' previous symmetry, blowing out the roughly 4 billion cubic yards of rock, ash and magmatic material from the mountain's northern flank.

THE REGION Cleaning of Puget Sound brings tribes full circle: The Nisqually tribe's dive team is part of a $4.6 million stimulus-financed effort to remove fishing nets that were lost or discarded decades ago but can still kill fish, birds and other animals.

John Gotts, who filed as a candidate for the 15th legislative district but never campaigned, has changed his mind about his political future.

Plans for a wind farm on some state land in Skamania County are on hold because it's spotted owl habitat.

Washington state has received more than $56 million in Forest Service dollars to thin forests, repair roads and finance other stimulus projects on federal, state, tribal and private lands.

Investigators have not yet released the identity of a woman killed in a train accident in Skamania County.

Loren Coleman on August 15th, 2009 a 09 Bigfoot Bash and Bounty , August 28 & 29th, Carson, Washington State This free admission event takes place in the small Southern Washington town of Carson, on the Columbia River and all are welcome.

A fire in a steep Columbia Gorge canyon some 90 miles east of Vancouver has blackened between 320 and 350 acres, according to an estimate released Friday morning.

Deputies from the Skamania County Sheriff's Office have found the body of an 80-year-old Puyallup hiker on the Pacific Crest Trail near Trout Lake.

An 80-year-old man died during a hike on the Pacific Crest Trail Thursday. kgw.com Graphic Hikers found the body of Albert Mader just before 11 a.m. off of a Forest Service road about 10 miles NW of Trout Lake, WA, according to Skamania County deputies.

Authorities were searching for kayaker missing in Skamania County, about 12 miles east of Stevenson, Washington.

Authorities were searching for kayaker missing in Skamania County, about 12 miles east of Stevenson, Washington.

Authorities were searching for kayaker missing in Skamania County, about 12 miles east of Stevenson, Washington.

Here is a press release from the Skamania County Sheriff's Office: The Skamania County Sheriff's Office received a call at approximately 6:45 p.m. of an overdue kayaker on the Little White Salmon River.

A man who molested a 6-year-old boy several years ago has been released from jail and has registered as living homeless in Clark County.

A Washougal landowner could face 30 days in jail for allegedly opening aerial rope slides on his 83-acre property in the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area in violation of a temporary injunction.

A Carson man was critically injured Monday after the motorcycle he rode collided with a car and a pickup on state Highway 14, five miles west of North Bonneville in Skamania County.

Landowners Carolyn and Gilbert Oster, right, and neighbor Leroy Dunbar walk a piece of the Osters' 90 acres in Fall City.