Stories by Craig Brown

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Clark County Fire District 6
Firefighters debrief after extinguishing a small fire in a planter box next to The Columbian’s front door on Saturday morning.

From the Newsroom: Luckily, it was only a small fire

April 20, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News

My office window overlooks Eighth Street west of Esther Short Park. Not an hour goes by that I don’t see a person who seems to be homeless or suffering from mental illness. Often these people will stop at a small planter near the window, which until Tuesday contained a bushy… Read story

Battle Ground boy accused of assaulting mother with knife, kitchen pan

April 19, 2024, 4:19pm Clark County News Updated 16 hours ago

A Battle Ground mother was briefly knocked unconscious Thursday morning after her juvenile son allegedly assaulted her with a knife and a kitchen pan. Read story

Pedestrians pass the old electrical substation at the foot of the northbound span of the Interstate 5 Bridge. The empty building is listed for sale at $1 million.

Clark Public Utilities to sell landmark substation next to Interstate 5 Bridge

April 19, 2024, 6:06am Business Subscriber Exclusive

One of Vancouver’s most historic, visible and unusual buildings has been listed for sale at $1 million. Read story

From the newsroom: Documenting journalism’s junkyard

April 13, 2024, 6:09am Clark County News

I am afraid of rats. My wife doesn’t like snakes. And journalists are scared of a company called Alden Global Capital. Read story

Craig Brown/The Columbian
Singapore’s Merlion Park, above, is too bright to be a good place to read The Columbian, but any of the city’s Toast Box cafes would be an excellent choice.

From the newsroom: Hearing from our overseas readers

April 6, 2024, 6:08am Clark County News

Last week, I talked about some of the ways you can get the most out of your Columbian subscription, including the ability to read our ePaper, the digital replica of the print product, wherever your smartphone or computer has internet access. Read story

From The Newsroom: TV, radio do well in Washington

Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files Local television stations and local AM/FM radio stations in Washington continue to find viewers, including in gyms, like the Planet Fitness location in Hazel Dell.

As I’ve told you a number of times, newspaper readership is down and online news readership is up. That’s true all around the country; we see it reflected at The Columbian, where our digital-only subscribers now outnumber our print subscribers. Read story

From the Newsroom: Addresser loses its grip

Circulation Director Rachel Rose said the letter carriers did their best, and in some cases even delivered papers with missing addresses to the mailboxes of known subscribers.

Let’s start this column with an apology to print subscribers who didn’t receive last Saturday’s edition, or received it late. We had one of those kinds of problems that crops up now and again when you manufacture things. Read story

From the Newsroom: Some opinionated thoughts

Candidates for the Vancouver Public School board of directors, right, meet with The Columbian Editorial Board in 2019.

If you have been reading newspapers for a long time, like I have, you’re probably familiar with the difference between news pages and editorial pages. News stories, which appear on the front page and throughout the paper, are written by reporters who try to include all the relevant facts without… Read story