While recent remarks made at meetings and in reports by the State Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council accuse the trucking industry of undermining efforts to transition to electric commercial trucks, ...

With high school and college commencements wrapping up, employers now worry about the graduates’ preparedness to enter the work world. This year, 3.9 million students graduated from our high schools, ...

Area high school athletes were named to Greater St. Helens (GSHL) and Trico all-league teams for their individual successes ...

Starting July 1, Washington families, seniors and small businesses will begin feeling the effects of the largest tax increase in state history. Passed by a Democratic majority in Olympia — with Gov.

After 35 years, the Pediatric Interim Care Center in Kent – the only specialized medical facility in western Washington caring for drug-exposed babies – stopped accepting new intakes on ...

As part of the solution to addressing the ongoing opioid epidemic, a Washington Health Care Authority work group has released recommendations that include turning the state into a drug supplier of ...

Ideally, legislators would have to respond to most needs only once. Our branch of government makes the appropriate change in law, the executive branch implements it, and away we go. Back in 2014, we ...

The Washington state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) recently released its annual Forest Health Highlights report after joint aerial detection surveys flown by DNR and U.S. Department of ...

A juvenile tree swallow looks prime to make its first flight at the Ridgefield National Wildlife Refuge in June. The tree swallow is a beneficial bird species, as it is an insectivore that often feeds ...

Grant House Ghost Tour: 2:30-4 p.m., Sunday, July 20, The Grant House Willful Wine, 1101 Officers Row, Vancouver. Learn about the five resident ghosts at The Grant House during an educational tour.

Outbreaks of the silver fir beetle in Washington are rare, but spikes in population sometimes occur following windthrow events that generate abundant breeding material, according to the release.