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A man running from police drowned in Woodland’s Horseshoe Lake early Thursday morning.
According to a statement from Woodland Police, the man made it halfway across the lake when he began calling for help but he could not be reached. His body was found hours later.
A former Vancouver police officer made a first appearance Wednesday in Clark County Superior Court on two first-degree perjury charges after allegedly lying about his job experience when applying for search warrants in some of his assigned cases.
Judge Suzan Clark placed Keith L. Kircher, 36, on supervised release.
Mount St. Helens’ Johnston Ridge Observatory is slated to reopen to the public in spring 2027, according to a recently re-released timeline detailing the phases of restoration work to state Highway 504, also known as Spirit Lake Highway.
A landslide that covered the road with 300,000 cubic yards of rock, mud, ice and other debris closed the highway May 14, 2023, near where the road is seasonally blocked to winter traffic. The landslide washed out the Spirit Lake Outlet Bridge at Milepost 49. Although there’s no vehicle access to Johnston Ridge, the Hummocks Trailhead, Coldwater Lake and Science and Learning Center at Coldwater remain open.
Detectives believe a Clark County woman reported missing in September is dead, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office said Monday.
Investigators are now searching for Alana Carroll’s remains. Carroll had been staying at various residences in north Clark County around the time she was reported missing, investigators said. Carroll was 32 years old and struggling with substance use disorder, according to the sheriff’s office.
In the past few years, Portland-focused food influencers have turned their attention to Vancouver. Emily Snieska, who runs The Portland Foodies and PDX Supper Club accounts on Instagram, not only focuses on Vancouver, but lives here. The Portland Foodies, with 32,000 followers, recently won Best Local Instagram Account from Willamette Week’s Best of Portland reader survey.
Snieska majored in marketing with a minor in digital media at Utah Valley University. She began as a film major based on her lifelong love of making films but decided to change her degree to find an occupation with more family-friendly hours. She created a blog and Instagram account focused on travel (she’s visited 20 countries) for a social media marketing class in college.
