Menu Newsletters
The Columbian logo tagline
Login
Today's Paper Donate
Newsletters Subscribe
Monday,  May 19 , 2025
Current weather Vancouver, WA
To search stories before 2011, click here to access our archives.

Linkedin Pinterest

Latest News

Lucy Lowell, 103, a Holocaust survivor, holds a photo of her and her late husband on Thursday, April 30, 2025, in Miami Beach, Florida.

As Holocaust survivors continue to vanish, one of the oldest in Miami shares her story

Lucy Lowell, 103, a Holocaust survivor, holds a photo of her and her late husband on Thursday, April 30, 2025, in Miami Beach, Florida.

May 18, 2025, 10:25am Latest News

MIAMI -- Lucy Lowell, who survived the deadliest Nazi concentration camp to build a full life in New York City and eventually settle in Miami Beach, is among the last of an important and increasingly rare group of people. Read story

Black-footed ferrets are among the species in New Mexico that need conservation help. A new law expands the authority of the state’s wildlife agency to include non-game species, provides additional funding and overhauls the commission that governs wildlife management. (Photo by Kimberly Fraser/U.S.

As states rethink wildlife management, New Mexico offers a new model

Black-footed ferrets are among the species in New Mexico that need conservation help. A new law expands the authority of the state’s wildlife agency to include non-game species, provides additional funding and overhauls the commission that governs wildlife management. (Photo by Kimberly Fraser/U.S.

May 18, 2025, 6:02am Latest News Free

For years, outdoors enthusiasts in New Mexico have pushed to overhaul the state Department of Game & Fish — an agency plagued by leadership turnover, funding woes and the scorn of hunters and tree-huggers alike. Read story

Sister Nathalie Becquart walks inside the General Secretariat of the Synod in Rome on Saturday, May 10, 2025.

Those who’ve worked with Pope Leo XIV are optimistic he’ll elevate women’s roles — with limits

Sister Nathalie Becquart walks inside the General Secretariat of the Synod in Rome on Saturday, May 10, 2025.

May 18, 2025, 6:02am Churches & Religion

Before becoming Pope Leo XIV, Cardinal Robert Prevost presided over one of the most revolutionary reforms of Pope Francis’ pontificate by having women serve on the Vatican board that vets nominations for bishops. Read story

A Microsoft sign and logo are pictured at the company's headquarters, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Redmond, Wash.

Why is Microsoft, the world’s most valuable company, cutting workers?

A Microsoft sign and logo are pictured at the company's headquarters, Friday, April 4, 2025, in Redmond, Wash.

May 18, 2025, 6:02am Business

Microsoft is laying off more than 6,000 employees in an effort to streamline its corporate ranks. Read story

In this screengrab taken from a video posted on Oliver Widger’s Instagram account on Friday, May 2, 2025, Widger pets his cat, Phoenix, on their sailboat somewhere in the Pacific Ocean as both make their way from Oregon to Hawaii.

Sailing from Oregon to Hawaii after quitting his job turns a man with a cat into social media star

In this screengrab taken from a video posted on Oliver Widger’s Instagram account on Friday, May 2, 2025, Widger pets his cat, Phoenix, on their sailboat somewhere in the Pacific Ocean as both make their way from Oregon to Hawaii.

May 18, 2025, 6:01am Business

Midway while sailing across the Pacific with just his cat named Phoenix, Oliver Widger reflected on why he thinks his many followers — more than a million on TikTok and Instagram — are drawn to his story of quitting his 9-to-5 job and embarking on a journey from Oregon to… Read story

Employees at packing stations are seen at Amazon’s Kent, Washington, fulfillment center on June 11, 2020.

Amazon claims warehouses are getting safer. Critics say progress is too slow

Employees at packing stations are seen at Amazon’s Kent, Washington, fulfillment center on June 11, 2020.

May 18, 2025, 6:00am Business

Injury rates in Amazon warehouses fell in 2024 for the third year in a row, but a coalition of labor unions that tracks the data said Amazon isn’t making improvements fast enough. Read story

Hall became, in his own words, a ǃúwhite power, neo-Nazi, national socialistǃù dedicated to ǃúholding up all the laws that the great Aryan Brotherhood laid down so no good white man would become a victim.ǃù (California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation/TNS)

How the Aryan Brotherhood used O.C. punk rockers to grow beyond prison walls

Hall became, in his own words, a ǃúwhite power, neo-Nazi, national socialistǃù dedicated to ǃúholding up all the laws that the great Aryan Brotherhood laid down so no good white man would become a victim.ǃù (California Department of Corrections & Rehabilitation/TNS)

May 18, 2025, 6:00am Latest News

LOS ANGELES -- Two men lay in a dark street in Pomona. Read story

Wildland firefighters watch and take video with their cellphones as a plane drops fire retardant on Harlow Ridge above the Lick Creek Fire, southwest of Asotin, Wash., Monday, July 12, 2021.

Wildfire season may be unpredictable after federal budget slashing hits supplies, support staff, crews say

Wildland firefighters watch and take video with their cellphones as a plane drops fire retardant on Harlow Ridge above the Lick Creek Fire, southwest of Asotin, Wash., Monday, July 12, 2021.

May 17, 2025, 1:30pm Latest News

Fuel for chainsaws. Food and water for Pulaski-toting firefighters doing the exhaustive work of digging fire lines. Ample first aid kits with spendy epi-pens in case a wildland firefighter steps on a hornet’s nest and suffers a life-threatening allergic reaction. Read story

Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove stands for a portrait at the Webster Forest Nursery Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Olympia, Wash.

WA emergency managers face uncertainty as feds pull funding

Washington State Commissioner of Public Lands Dave Upthegrove stands for a portrait at the Webster Forest Nursery Wednesday, March 26, 2025, in Olympia, Wash.

May 17, 2025, 1:27pm Latest News

Washington state emergency managers say President Donald Trump’s cuts and recent denials of federal relief funds are making them nervous for inevitable wildfires and other catastrophes. Read story

Tara Campbell, center, dances through a cheer tunnel formed by other GirlTrek walkers outside the Bricklayers Hall in Montgomery, Ala., on April 19, 2025. After every Saturday morning walk, it’s tradition that the group celebrates each other for finishing the workout and prioritizing their health.

In the Deep South, health care fights echo civil rights battles

Tara Campbell, center, dances through a cheer tunnel formed by other GirlTrek walkers outside the Bricklayers Hall in Montgomery, Ala., on April 19, 2025. After every Saturday morning walk, it’s tradition that the group celebrates each other for finishing the workout and prioritizing their health.

May 17, 2025, 10:30am Latest News Free

Tara Campbell unlocked the front door of the Bricklayers Hall, a no-frills brick building on South Union Street in downtown Montgomery, half a mile from the white-domed Alabama Capitol. Read story