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May 30, 2024
Camas Police Chief Tina Jones (right) presents an award to Camas police officer Casey Handley, the police department's 2023 Sworn Staff Member of the Year, during the inaugural Camas Police Department Awards Ceremony, held at the Grace Foursquare Church in Camas, Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Camas police honored at inaugural awards ceremony

The stories shared during the Camas Police Department’s inaugural awards ceremony on Thursday, May 25, showed a wide range of brave and heroic acts — running toward a burning vehicle to help save its occupants; rushing alone into a middle school to confront an armed student trying to access a locked classroom; talking suicidal people off roofs and bridges; performing life-saving cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR); chasing down sexual assault suspects; and cracking open a decade-long elder-abuse case.

April 23, 2024
Emergency vehicles sit at the Camas-Washougal Fire Department's Station 41 in downtown Camas, Feb. 2, 2022. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Camas EMS levy renewal passing by wide margin

Preliminary election results show the city of Camas’ emergency medical services (EMS) levy renewal is passing by wide margins as of 8:10 p.m. Tuesday, April 23. …

April 11, 2024

Lost hikers found on Pacific Crest Trail

On April 4, at approximately 9 p.m., the Skamania County Communications Center received a 911 call from 19-year-old Wyatt Corn advising he and his 19-year-old friend were lost…