State forest lands in Clark County scheduled for harvest will remain on the auction block for now, despite pushback from residents, environmental groups and the county council, according to Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove.
Washougal High School Green Team students are working to transform the school’s courtyard into a native habitat learning space with support from a local grant. The student-led group aims to…
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced it will hold two online public meetings later this month to get feedback on a $1.5 billion project to run a 100-mile-long high-voltage power line under the Columbia River.
The U.S. Forest Service recently announced a new public survey to investigate the impacts of its 2025 ban on commercial huckleberry harvests in Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Recent storms that brought heavy rains to Southwest Washington left behind a swath of environmental damage from Randall and Packwood along the Cowlitz River to several county parks along the Lewis and East Fork Lewis rivers.
The National Weather Service has made its predictions for the first three months of 2026, estimating a 40-50 percent chance of average levels of precipitation in the Pacific Northwest. Temperatures for the coldest months of the year will remain normal.
TransAlta Corporation has signed an agreement with Puget Sound Energy to switch the last coal-fired power station in Washington to natural gas.
Columbia River navigators are growing worried as a project to put a 100-mile power transmission line under the river charges ahead without offering ways to mitigate its impacts on the industry.
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.
For members of Vancouver Audubon Society, most days are for the birds — more precisely, finding and identifying birds, educating others about birds and protecting birds.
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