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Historic site, SOLVE aid waterfront cleanup

September 6, 2016, 6:03am Clark County Life

Fort Vancouver National Historic Site is working with SOLVE Oregon to provide cleanup supplies and trash removal along a popular Columbia River trail on Sept. 17. Read story

POW/MIA observance to be held on Sept. 17

September 6, 2016, 6:02am Clark County News

The Community Military Appreciation Committee is inviting the community to a National POW/MIA Recognition Day Observance on Sept. 17 at the Armed Forces Reserve Center, 15005 N.E. 65th St. Read story

Air National Guard will night train this week

September 6, 2016, 6:01am Clark County News

The Oregon Air National Guard's 142nd Fighter Wing will conduct routine F-15 night training missions today through Friday in the evenings. Read story

This year&#039;s Campfires &amp; Candlelight at Fort Vancouver adds a new tale in the fort&#039;s history: the time in 1844 when wildfire threatened to burn the fort down.

Fort’s ‘Night of the Fire’ recalls wildfire scare

This year&#039;s Campfires &amp; Candlelight at Fort Vancouver adds a new tale in the fort&#039;s history: the time in 1844 when wildfire threatened to burn the fort down.

September 6, 2016, 6:00am Clark County News

This year’s version of Campfires & Candlelight will represent an even more fiery setting at Fort Vancouver: the night in 1844 when the place almost burned down. Read story

Weather Eye: Fair weather is carrying us closer to our first frost of the fall

September 6, 2016, 5:59am Clark County News

Summer’s last holiday certainly wasn’t a sunny, hot weekend but, all in all, not too bad. Read story

Columbia Gorge film festival heads for California

September 5, 2016, 11:59pm Clark County Life

This year, the Columbia Gorge International Film Festival won’t be anywhere near the Columbia Gorge. Read story

Kevin Churo, a lab assistant at BSK Labs in Vancouver, organizes samples of water in a temporary work space set up to deal with an increase in tests sent to the lab due to recent headlines of elevated levels of lead in drinking water at schools.

Lead leads to busy days at Vancouver lab

Kevin Churo, a lab assistant at BSK Labs in Vancouver, organizes samples of water in a temporary work space set up to deal with an increase in tests sent to the lab due to recent headlines of elevated levels of lead in drinking water at schools.

September 5, 2016, 7:53pm Clark County Health

A typical month at the Vancouver lab location of BSK Associates used to mean 10 to 15 water samples sent in through various cities and a few other homeowner samples sprinkled in. Read story

Participants in the 15th annual Hands Across the Bridge sobriety event walked from Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver up to the Interstate 5 Bridge on Monday.

Hands Across the Bridge champions message of hope

Participants in the 15th annual Hands Across the Bridge sobriety event walked from Esther Short Park in downtown Vancouver up to the Interstate 5 Bridge on Monday.

September 5, 2016, 7:23pm Clark County News

Labor Day is a holiday dedicated to the tireless work and achievements of American workers, and so the holiday was a fitting choice for a celebration of those who have fought their way to sobriety. Read story

The state Energy Facility Site Evaluation will be judge and jury during adjudication hearings that start Monday. It is the latest step, and nearly the last, toward a recommendation for the governor on the approval or denial of an oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver. Above, the evaluation council listens to testimony on the project&#039;s environmental review in January.

Council backs city over waste permit

The state Energy Facility Site Evaluation will be judge and jury during adjudication hearings that start Monday. It is the latest step, and nearly the last, toward a recommendation for the governor on the approval or denial of an oil terminal at the Port of Vancouver. Above, the evaluation council listens to testimony on the project&#039;s environmental review in January.

September 5, 2016, 5:43pm Business

The city of Vancouver, not the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council, has the authority to decide how energy facilities must treat their wastewater before they connect to the city’s sewage treatment plant, the council recently ruled. Read story

Joe Krajewski, right, and the rest of team Will Power started the Hood to Coast race Aug. 26, just four days after Krajewski&#039;s son, Will, died from bone cancer. The team in Will&#039;s honor raised more than $23,000 for the Providence Cancer Center.

Will Power fuels team’s Hood to Coast run for cancer research

Joe Krajewski, right, and the rest of team Will Power started the Hood to Coast race Aug. 26, just four days after Krajewski&#039;s son, Will, died from bone cancer. The team in Will&#039;s honor raised more than $23,000 for the Providence Cancer Center.

September 5, 2016, 6:30am Clark County Health

Running in the pitch black along Highway 30, Joe Krajewski was tired. It was sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, and the Vancouver man was in the middle of a monotonous 7-mile run along the Oregon highway. Read story