If you’ve been hoping for a break from the rain, it looks like you’ll need to be patient. A steady train of Pacific weather ...

A decision by U.S. Catholic bishops to ban gender-affirming care for transgender patients at Catholic hospitals may have implications for patients at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver, ...

Officials in timber-dependent counties around Southwest Washington say the state Forest Practices Board’s new rule expanding no-logging zones around some streams amounts to an economic siege.

The gray wolf, which was extirpated in Washington State in the early 1900’s, has been making a comeback in the Evergreen State.

La Center United launched in 2013 to increase community collaboration and reduce youth substance use and mental health issues. The nonprofit organization has received $125,000 per year from the federa ...

The U.S. House of Representatives’ Committee on Natural Resources took on the Columbia River’s salmon-eating sea lion problem in a nearly 2½-hour hearing Wednesday.

Battle Ground resident Jackota Salmi, 19, has a genetic mutation that gave him kidney disease. He is waiting for a kidney transplant. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian) Will rain affect your weekend plans?

When the longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended recently, Republicans mostly got what they wanted: A spending bill was passed, the government was reopened and Democrats’ main demand — a dea ...

King’s Way Christian Schools recently announced that Superintendent Jason Tindol has been recognized as one of the top 10 superintendents in the United States by Education Insider.

My first term as a newly elected representative in the Legislature was a harrowing one. In 1981, we faced a billion-dollar shortfall that would ultimately result in many painful policy decisions.

Every year around the holidays, our newsroom writes extra feature stories that can fill the paper when news slows down around Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Christmas, New Year’s and all the other h ...

For several reasons, a recent article in The Columbian is eye-opening and attention-grabbing and maybe even jaw-dropping — whichever cliché you prefer. Let’s allow the lede from reporter Brianna Mursc ...