Throughout his remarkable lifetime, the Rev. James Kelly has baptized thousands of people, married thousands more, ministered ...

Oprah Winfrey has chosen a novel with a timely theme for her latest book club pick. Bruce Holsinger’s “Culpability” is a ...

Stocks closed lower on Wall Street, pulling the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq composite below the records they set a day earlier.

The U.S. State Department is firing more than 1,300 employees on Friday in line with a dramatic reorganization plan from the ...

Abnormally high inventory and lagging sales have placed buyers in the best position to snag a house in Clark County since 2020, real estate agents say.

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When Matt Thierfelder began his career as a Vancouver firefighter in 1994, the weight of unspoken rules hung over him: Don’t show weakness and don’t be vulnerable.

The city of Vancouver on Tuesday released a document outlining the environmental effects of three potential approaches to handling the next 20 years of growth.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing to restore erosion-control barriers needed to maintain a navigable channel near Cottonwood Island in the Columbia River just south of Longview.

Vice President Kamala Harris had a better rapport with Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and saw him as a preferable fit to be her No. 2 — but she wrestled with whether Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro would be t ...

It’s one of countless such stories as the government ramps up mass deportation. In some cases, where the immigrants have committed crimes, there isn’t much controversy. But in others, as in Spokane, ...

The crack of the bat against the baseball is a sweet sound to any professional player. It likely sounds even sweeter to a mediocre player.