Vancouver WA

Firefighters are responding to a reported structure fire in the Overlook neighborhood. The caller said the fire started in a kitchen. Crews are on scene to investigate and contain the blaze.

After a gusty wind blew through Inner Southeast Portland the night before, on Thursday, March 12th, motorists attempting to travel on S.E. Bybee Boulevard just east of its bridge over McLoughlin Boulevard found themselves blocked by a large tree limb in the street. The big Elm limb completely blocked the...

A landlord has refused to renew a lease for a BottleDrop location at the Delta Park Center in North Portland, (“N. Portland BottleDrop, a magnet for drug use, is closing,” March 11). The reasons involved complaints of open drug use, homeless squatters and litter. The operators of BottleDrop...

Numbers tell stories. Turn to any page in Multnomah County’s three-volume adopted budget and you’ll find a tale—about the rise of fentanyl, the condition of libraries, the tug of war between labor and management, the mood of voters and, most of all, the poverty that local officials seem powerless to alleviate. Last...

A Vancouver man pleaded guilty on Friday to shooting another man and then leaving the body on a logging road in Ariel in 2024. Cowlitz County Superior Court Judge Jill Karmy accepted Joseph

Earlier this week, I was driving through inner Southeast Portland when I spotted a city of Portland work vehicle with California license plates. How puzzling! Why would one of our local resources be registered to our neighbors to the south? —Teddy Love. Even more puzzling is how unconcerned that...

The Vancouver Police Department is looking for Carrie Ann Winters, age 62, who was last seen on Friday near the Frenchman's Bar area in west Vancouver. She is 5 feet 4 inches tall, weighs about 150 pounds, and has tattoos on her neck, torso, arms, and hands. More information: https://t.co/jUtB6Q00wH.

When Libby Sanford’s son came home from his first day of kindergarten in Beaverton, she anticipated tales of new friends, lunch in the cafeteria and playground games. Instead, her son Max wanted to talk about technology. He’d played on the PBSKids app during his technology class, watched Super Why!...

The man found dead Friday at a Northeast Portland Plaid Pantry was an employee, the convenience store chain’s CEO said. CEO Jonathan Polonsky declined to share more information about the man’s death. Police previously said they found the man just before midnight at the 6060 Northeast Columbia Boulevard location...

Portland burn surgeons are sounding the alarm over a brutal side effect of the region's shift toward smoked fentanyl: a spike in life-threatening burns that can go all the way down to muscle and bone. At the Oregon Burn Center, clinicians say they are treating patients who need repeated reconstructive surgeries,...