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Visitors to the Downtown Camas Association’s inaugural Camas Volunteer and Community Engagement Summit gather information about volunteer opportunities in March 2024. This year’s volunteer summit will be Jan. 25 in the Fuel Medical building lobby in downtown Camas.

Camas volunteer summit brings nonprofits together to meet and recruit volunteers

January 18, 2025, 6:08am Clark County News Updated 2 days ago

The Downtown Camas Association will bring together a host of nonprofits and groups for its second annual Volunteer and Community Engagement Summit. Read story

Gardening with Allen: Starting veggie, flower plants indoors simple

January 18, 2025, 6:08am Clark County Life

I would like to start some plants from seed of some of the newer varieties not available in stores. Could you give me some suggestions of how and when to do this? Read story

Vancouver Mayor John P. Kiggins, in center of back seat, was in his first term when James J. Hill, with beard, visited town on Oct. 4, 1911. Hill was a keynote speaker at the county fairgrounds.

Clark County history: Railroad tycoon James J. Hill’s last visit

January 18, 2025, 6:05am Clark County Life

When railroad millionaire James J. Hill last visited Vancouver in October 1911, he’d already completed the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, a joint venture of his Great Northern and Northern Pacific railroads. Three years earlier, the last spike was driven for that railway along the north bank of the Columbia… Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Sunny skies should be heading our way this weekend

January 18, 2025, 6:00am Clark County News

Let’s catch up by reviewing last month’s rainfall from around the area from your friends and neighbors: Bob Starr, Cougar, 26.26 inches; Jim Knoll, Five Corners, 7.15 inches; Robin Ruzek, Lake Shore, 6.92 inches; Tyler Mode, Battle Ground, 8.33 inches; Bob Mode, Minnehaha, 5.67 inches; Chuck Houghten, Hockinson Heights, 8.86… Read story

ZoomInfo co-founder and CEO Henry Schuck.

ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck moves to Boston permanently

January 17, 2025, 4:06pm Business

ZoomInfo CEO Henry Schuck has moved to Boston, where the Vancouver software company has a growing presence. Read story

Border app that became ‘a salvation’ for migrants to legally enter the US may end

Migrant Dayron Garcia, of Cuba, embraces his son as they stay at Martha Rosales’ house while waiting for an appointment to apply for asylum in the United States through the CBP One app Wednesday, May 22, 2024, in Tijuana, Mexico.

January 17, 2025, 1:42pm Latest News

A nurse who fled Cuba as part of the Caribbean nation’s largest exodus in more than six decades needed a place to stay in Mexico as she waited to legally enter the U.S. using a government app. A woman who had lived her whole life in the same Tijuana neighborhood… Read story

Israel’s Cabinet approves a deal for a ceasefire in Gaza and the release of dozens of hostages

Demonstrators hold posters of the slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a celebration for the announcement of a ceasefire deal between Hamas and Israel, at the Felestin (Palestine) Sq. in Tehran, Iran, Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025.

January 17, 2025, 1:23pm Latest News

Israel’s Cabinet approved a deal early Saturday for a ceasefire in Gaza that would release dozens of hostages held there and pause the 15-month war with Hamas, bringing the sides a step closer to ending their deadliest and most destructive fighting ever. Read story