One of the Columbia River Gorge’s most popular hiking trails, the Cape Horn trail east of Washougal, is getting some much-needed care thanks to volunteers from the Cape Horn Conservancy.

On Wednesday, 8 a.m. to noon, the Exit 11 offramp from northbound I-5 to state Highway 502 (Main Street in Battle Ground) will be closed. From 1-4 p.m., the Exit 11 offramp from northbound I-5 to the ...

Cheers: To better facilities for dogs awaiting their forever homes. The West Columbia Gorge Humane Society in Washougal recently showed off its new kennels. The stainless steel kennels cost $165,000 b ...

U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez is a massive disappointment to Democrats in Washington’s 3rd Congressional District. She voted for the SAVE Act but called the bill a “dumpster fire,” yet she won’t v ...

There are so many losers and so few winners in Donald Trump’s “Big, Beautiful Bill” that it’s a minor miracle that Republicans passed it.

Deaths of ethnic Azerbaijanis rounded up by police for decades-old murders in a Russian city. The crash of an Azerbaijan Airlines passenger jet that Baku blamed on Moscow. Growing ties between Azerbai ...

Just as you may have thought that it was finally safe to think about American politics without thinking about Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, he has slinked his way into the national news ...

The pledge by NATO members to spend 3.5 percent of gross domestic product on military capabilities and 1.5 percent on defense infrastructure is the alliance’s boldest commitment in decades. It concede ...

Elon Musk warned that if Republicans passed their big domestic policy bill, he would form a new “America Party” to primary those who voted for it. He doesn’t need a new party. He has his old one, the ...

There’s plenty not to like about President Donald Trump’s “Big Beautiful Bill,” not least of which is that it would enlarge the national debt. But at least one part of the budget bill stands to help t ...

In a pitching matchup that lived up to the hype, George Kirby outlasted Paul Skenes to combine on the Mariners’ third consecutive shutout of the Pittsburgh Pirates in a 1-0 victory Sunday af ...

Noah Karliner and Christian Mateo-Hoffman each homered as the Ridgefield Raptors beat Victoria 7-2 on Sunday to snap a seven-game losing streak.