The median income for three-person families in Clark County rose sharply over the past five years but was flat from 2023 to 2024.
Business is booming at Clark County secondhand stores as prices rise for clothes and household items
Already, local shoppers are seeing higher clothing prices. Apparel has jumped 6.9 percent since last year, according to the latest figures from the Seattle-area Consumer Price Index. It rose a ...
About 15 million deaths could be avoided each year and agricultural emissions could drop by 15 percent if people worldwide shift to healthier, predominantly plant-based diets, according to the EAT-Lan ...
On Christmas Day of 2022, Aaron Lutz received word from one of his regular customers that the family had lost water service at their house due to freezing weather. Lutz didn’t hesitate to act, ...
Planned Parenthood’s clinic in Vancouver will remain open amid a wave of national closures as its regional CEO takes steps to ensure patients in Southwest Washington have access to care in the years a ...
Here are some of the top stories of the week on columbian.com. Wondering what else was popular this week with readers? Check out our Trending Stories page.
The race for Vancouver City Council, Position 1, is a relatively high-profile contest featuring two strong candidates who also have some flaws. The Columbian’s Editorial Board recommends a vote for ch ...
More woolly bear caterpillar reports are coming in. Columbian reader Michael Roll discovered one in the Orchards area that had a narrow orange band indicative of a colder winter. This critter agrees w ...
Nan Henriksen’s dog, Lucky, doesn’t trust the motives of strangers. The fluffy white dog glowered at me from her lap for the entire hour I sat on Henriksen’s couch.
For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic ...
Three years after the 1905 creation of the U.S. Forest Service, Gifford Pinchot, the new agency’s chief, sent Yale-graduate Thorton Munger into Washington’s forest to conduct research. This scientific ...
On a quiet street in Wilmette, Ill., native plants bloom in broad sweeps and bright bursts, bringing color and life to what was once an ordinary strip of lawn separating the sidewalk from th ...
Some results have been hidden because they may be inaccessible to you
Show inaccessible results
Feedback