Most-viewed stories in 2014 on columbian.com
Feb. 6: Man dies in massive I-5 accident (75,698 page views).
July 9: Missing Camas teen found safe (56,266).
Aug. 19: New developments in ‘Joe Biden defense’ case (56,192).
June 30: Police officer in critical condition after shooting (50,309).
Oct. 31: Shooter found dead in Blandford Canyon; 1 victim critical (48,025).
April 26: Celebrity quack moms are a terrible influence (38,328).
Sept. 25: Vancouver police capture homicide suspect (32,429).
May 2: State posts list of marijuana retailers (31,197).
Aug. 16: Vancouver man dies, five others hurt, in morning crash (25,557).
Feb. 3: Two dead in Vancouver workplace shooting (24,041).
Main story
Last year’s most-viewed story on columbian.com didn’t hit until Dec. 26, when we published a story about a lost roll of film we had found a few weeks earlier. It was shot in April 1980 by the late Reid Blackburn, a staff photographer who died when Mount St. Helens erupted that May 18.
This year’s biggest story on the website arrived much earlier.
On Feb. 6 a storm dubbed by Twitter users as “#Snowmageddon” gripped the region, leading to a massive traffic accident on Interstate 5 that killed one man.
Thousands of people returned to the story for updates on the storm, the traffic and to share their stories by leaving comments on the article, which became a forum of sorts.