Scott Hewitt

Paddling with a bunch of summer campers from Orcas to a smaller, remoter Puget Sound island turned out to be a formative experience for Ross Hoover, who took over as director of Clark County’s parks d

‘Mr. Matsura has done it again.”

A century ago, when Vancouver was a smaller town in a wilder landscape, it was just about impossible to imagine such rusticity producing great literature.

Cyclists riding the paved pathway along the west side of Northwest Lower River Road toward Vancouver Lake and Frenchman’s Bar must negotiate the path’s abrupt end. Just beyond the Farwest Steel plant,

Clayton Lukens focused on the beat and kept smiling.

Travelers heading southbound on Interstate 5 in Cowlitz County late Tuesday and early Wednesday must use a short detour off of and back onto the highway at Exit 22, just north of Woodland.

The heroically durable American pika appears to be making a comeback as it faces down such existential challenges as wildfire and climate change.

The Clark County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victim in a suspected homicide Tuesday night in west Hazel Dell.

It’s an unusually warm weekend for mid-May. The National Weather Service predicts today will be sunny and could reach 89 degrees, with just the faintest of breezes cooling things off. Sunday will also be sunny, with a high temperature near 81 degrees.

In summer 2019, southern-rock trendsetters Lynyrd Skynyrd said their concert at Clark County’s RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater was part of a farewell tour. Probably. Unless, you know, things turn out differently.

The Indigenous legend of Grandmother Camus is a story of love, sacrifice and transformation.

If you’re a newspaper reader, you probably already know the depressing conventional wisdom about print journalism: It’s been on the decline for decades thanks to an obsolete business model. Given the glut of free (albeit low-quality) news and free classified advertising available on the internet, daily newspapers reliant on subscriptions and ads for cashflow just can’t keep up.

CAMAS — Healthful exercise can require serious effort and focus, like maintaining yoga’s difficult boat pose, which requires balancing on your bottom while holding up your legs and torso rigidly, forming a human V.

Over the past few decades, community builders have bemoaned the loss of organized American togetherness as team, club and congregation membership has dwindled. From Sunday morning church services to Thursday night bowling league, people just don’t assemble in friendly groups like they used to — or so goes the theory outlined by sociologist Robert Putnam’s 2000 bestseller, “Bowling Alone.”

This year, you could visit the Columbia River Gorge to take in its breathtaking views, its unique geology, its brilliant wildflowers.

Whatever you do, do it big. So big, even the folks up in the nosebleed seats can’t miss it.

In a 1923 book called “The Principle of Relativity,” Albert Einstein seemed to call out to better-equipped scientists of the future to establish the truth of his mind-bending theoretical work.

Depending on whom you ask, the closure of several art galleries in downtown Camas is either a sad coincidence or a gloomy economic indicator for brick-and-mortar art shops.

People were walking around this beautiful region long before it became known as Southwest Washington.

If the Washington musicians that spring quickest to mind are Jimi Hendrix, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Heart or Bing Crosby, here’s your ticket to a whole new set of Evergreen State sounds.