From their control center at the Ross Complex in Vancouver, Bonneville Power Administration dispatchers manage the region’s electricity supply and demand in real time. Read…
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Clark County Council votes to keep zoning ordinance allowing surface mining in Chelatchie Bluff area
By The Citizen on October 23, 2024
Special zoning that allows surface mining in the Chelatchie Bluff area will stay in effect, at least for now. On Tuesday, the Clark County Council…
Can Pacific lamprey numbers be restored in the Columbia River Basin? Yakama Nation biologists think so
By The Citizen on October 19, 2024
WOODLAND — Biologist Dave’y Lumley paced the shallow water at the mouth of the Lewis River on an overcast morning late last month. With each…
Washougal Pit owner tries to resume mining, again
By The Citizen on October 19, 2024
WASHOUGAL — A year after being denied, Ridgefield resident Judith Zimmerly is once again attempting to get permits to resume gravel mining on her property…
Drop, cover and hold on: Battle Ground students take part in Great Washington ShakeOut
By The Citizen on October 17, 2024
BATTLE GROUND — Fourth-graders at Maple Grove Primary School quietly pushed out their chairs and calmly crouched under their desks as they prepared for the…
‘A significant milestone’: Camp Kwoneesum Dam is gone but work to reshape the land continues
By The Citizen on October 16, 2024
SKAMANIA — The past five months have brought a lot of changes to the remote forestland that once housed Camp Kwoneesum Dam. Read more… Source:…
‘You have to beat the squirrels and the rain’: Ridgefield farm harvests its first commercial hazelnut crop
By The Citizen on October 9, 2024
RIDGEFIELD — For Ridgefield farmer Rob Baur, harvesting his farm’s first commercial hazelnut crop this fall and shipping it off to buyers was a race…
Vancouver city officials release 2023 Greenhouse Gas Inventory, showing progress on emissions with room for improvement
By The Citizen on October 9, 2024
Transportation and travel are responsible for half of Vancouver’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the city’s recently released greenhouse gas inventory. The city undertook the…
Mount Adams experiences most earthquakes in one month since monitoring began at volcano
By The Citizen on October 7, 2024
Mount Adams experienced the most earthquakes in one month during September since monitoring at the volcano began in 1982. Read more… Source: The Columbian
Should Vancouver fix the air quality issues in Fruit Valley before adding more housing?
By The Citizen on October 5, 2024
Lewis Record, 80, remembers the whisper of swaying branches and crisp scent of the air as he picked prunes in Fruit Valley in the 1950s.…