First-time candidates spurred on by pushback against recently-approved gun control Initiative 1639 are moving onto the November general election for Battle Ground City Council.

Late last month a Longview man received a two-month sentence for using a hunting dog in connection with an investigation of an alleged poaching ring that operated in Washington and Oregon. 

Huckleberry Season in The Gifford Pinchot National Forest

Concerns over the ethics of appointing the husband of a sitting Yacolt Town Councilor to a vacant seat on the governing body has caught scrutiny from residents and a Vancouver-based protest group.

A lawsuit against Clark County from a former department head, state senator and now head of the U.S. Selective Service System has new claims accusing the county of violating due process and First Amendment rights in 2016.

On Aug. 8 red-light runners came up against a coordinated effort by local and state police to educate — and enforce — state traffic laws at the intersection of state routes 503 and 502 in Battle Ground. 

Based on the first ballot count for the August primary, first-time candidates spurred on by pushback against recently-approved gun control Initiative 1639 are moving onto the November general election for Battle Ground City Council.  

Members of the Clark County Sheriff’s Office, U.S. Marshall’s Pacific Northwest Violent Offender Task Force and the Southwest Washington Regional SWAT Team worked together to arrest a fugitive facing charges of kidnapping and assault Sunday. 

The city of Battle Ground will likely ask voters to approve a potential annexation into Clark County Fire District 3 on the February 2020 special election ballot.

An art project in downtown Battle Ground more than a decade in the making is finally complete, more or less.

Rotary Club of Three Creeks members selected North County Community Food Bank as the club’s nonprofit community partner, granting $10,000 to the food bank.

The Clark County Sheriff’s Office has immediate openings for positions in Corrections, Enforcement and Sheriff’s Support roles.

A man was arrested in Vancouver last week after confronting deputies with a gun.

A town council race in Yacolt will see an additional three-day period for candidates to file this week as no one initially filed for the seat back in May.

The Clark County Sheriff’s Office has recently received numerous reports of fraudulent phone calls being derived from the telephone number of, or similar to, (360) 397-2211, the office’s phone number. Although this phone number is associated with the sheriff’s office the caller(s) are tellin…