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Field notes: Labor Day weekend is the time to fish Swift Reservoir

Swift Reservoir offers good fishing for rainbow trout in the fall in uncrowded conditions.

August 30, 2024, 12:07pm Latest News

Boaters wanting to catch rainbow trout at Swift Reservoir need to fish this weekend (Aug. 31-Sept. 2). Read story

U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, has helped secure $2.1 million for the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program.

Rep. Perez to host service academy open house in Vancouver

August 30, 2024, 11:41am Clark County News

U.S. Rep Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, will host a service academy open house event Sept. 16 in Vancouver. Read story

FILE - The capitol is seen on the first day of the legislative session at the Oregon state Capitol, Monday, Feb. 5, 2024, in Salem, Ore. Oregon's whirlwind 35-day legislative session ended Thursday night, a couple days ahead of schedule. This year lawmakers focused on housing and drugs as the two main priorities.

Oregon may pay out $1 billion kicker in 2026 as tax revenues come in higher than expected

August 30, 2024, 11:30am Latest News

Oregonians are likely to see more money back on their state tax returns in 2026 as tax revenues continue to exceed forecasters’ expectations. Read story

A map of the wind energy areas identified for potential offshore floating wind energy farms.

Feds will auction two wind energy sites off southern Oregon coast in October

August 30, 2024, 10:22am Latest News Free

The Biden administration will seek bids on developing two wind energy sites off Oregon’s southern coast in October. Read story

Photos of Veronica Rosas and her son Diego decorate Veronica’s shirt and necklaces, as she poses for a portrait at her home in Ecatepec, Mexico, Friday, Aug. 2, 2024. Rosas’ son went missing when he was 16 years old on Sept. 4, 2015.

One day, their children didn’t make it back home. Faith helps these Mexican mothers’ search for them

August 30, 2024, 10:18am Latest News

Each time the kidnapper hung up the phone, Veronica Rosas and her relatives did the only thing they could think of: kneel, grab each other’s hands and pray. Read story

Camas plein air event is a tribute to its founder, the late Marquita Call.

August 30, 2024, 8:44am Clark County Life Free

An Oct. 5 plein air painting competition in Camas will honor the late Marquita Call, an arts booster and local gallery owner who founded the annual event in 2013. Call died in August 2023. Read story

FILE - In this June 1, 2020, file photo, a man leaves a vandalized Home Depot store in Oakland, Calif. Police say many of the smash-and-grab thefts have been carried out by caravans of well-coordinated criminals that have coincided with or followed protests over the death of George Floyd, who was killed by a Minneapolis police officer who pressed his knee into Floyd's neck.

Report: Home Depot spent billions on its own shares instead of raising pay

August 30, 2024, 7:49am Business

Home Depot ranks in the bottom 100 companies in the S&P 500 index for median pay. But it ranks near the top of those corporations in buying back its own stock shares, billions that instead could have been spent improving wages, according to a report from a Washington, D.C., think… Read story

Sheriff’s office searching for suspect in golf-club assault that injured Vancouver man

August 30, 2024, 7:44am Clark County News

A Vancouver man had to be taken to the hospital early Friday after being assaulted by a golf-club wielding man that Clark County sheriff’s deputies believed is the victim’s uncle. Read story

Cascade Renewable Transmission is planning to build a 100-mile-long transmission line between Bonneville Power Administration’s Big Eddy substation in The Dalles, Ore., near The Dalles Dam, and Portland General Electric’s Harborton substation in Portland.

Company wants to bury 100-mile transmission line in Columbia River; it could carry solar, wind energy to Clark County

August 30, 2024, 6:07am Business

A pair of Connecticut companies are seeking approval to bury a 100-mile transmission line in the bed of the Columbia River to carry solar and wind energy to the Portland-Vancouver area. Read story