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Byline: Mia Ryder-Marks Oct. 3Georgia-Pacific has been fined nearly $650,000 by the state in the workplace death of a 32-year-old Camas paper mill employee who was crushed by a packing [...]

Byline: Anthony Macuk Jun. 26The family of a former Camas paper mill worker has been awarded $16.67 million in a verdict against Scapa Waycross Inc., which sold asbestos-containing products to [...]

March 06-- Mar. 6--Predictions of the Camas paper mill's demise, apparently, have been greatly exaggerated. Two years after a restructuring led to the loss of about 300 jobs at the [...]

Byline: Will Campbell March 25-- Mar. 25--Before the schools and restaurants closed, Lydia Work saw signs that her business would skyrocket during the COVID-19 outbreak. 'We started seeing the orders [...]

Byline: Lauren Ellenbecker May 16Vibrant red poppies, symbolizing bloodshed from World War I, must be assembled delicately. Four ironed paper petals must neatly wrap around a green wire with a [...]

Byline: Anthony Macuk June 27-- Jun. 27--Vancouver-based Columbia Ventures Corporation has acquired the assets of the shuttered paper mill in West Linn, Ore., entered into a five-year lease to rent [...]

Byline: Monika Spykerman Sep. 7Toilet paper is a very recent invention, in terms of human history. Toilet paper in the modern sense has only been around since 1857, when New [...]

Byline: Becca Robbins Aug. 3A slowdown in metal license plate production at the Washington Department of Corrections during the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a statewide license plate shortage. The [...]

Byline: Jeffrey Mize March 19-- Mar. 19--With consumers snatching up every roll of toilet paper available, public agencies may face problems from residents flushing toilet paper substitutes. The city of [...]

Byline: Troy Brynelson Nov. 26--CAMAS -- It was only a generation ago that life in Camas seemed to revolve around its paper mill. The towering mill employed thousands of people [...]

Byline: Erin Middlewood April 09-- Apr. 9--Despite reassurances that most toilet paper is made right here in the United States and there's no shortage of supply, Clark County shoppers still [...]

Byline: Scott Hewitt April 07--CAMAS -- When Anna Fry started working at this town's signature business 29 years ago, she was a papermaker on the factory floor. Fry has moved [...]

Byline: Craig Brown Jan. 11-- Jan. 11--At the risk of repeating myself, I wanted to remind all of our readers that we are no longer publishing a Monday print edition [...]

Byline: Craig Brown Nov. 23-- Nov. 23--If the past is any indication, next week is going to be crazy around the newsroom, and I hope we are ready for it. [...]

Byline: Craig Brown Sept. 14-- Sep. 14--Craig Brown is The Columbian's editor. His column will appear in this space periodically. Contact him at 360-735-4514 or craig.brown@columbian.com Monday will be an [...]

Byline: Craig BrownJan. 19--The new year is a time for self-improvement. Even if you're a newspaper. So beginning on Monday, you'll notice some improvements to the print edition of The [...]

Byline: Jerzy Shedlock Dec. 28--Two rooms of a Walnut Grove home were damaged in a Wednesday night fire that began when fireplace embers ignited wrapping paper, according to fire officials. [...]

Byline: Katie Gillespie June 25--Evergreen Public Schools this summer will begin shifting from paper textbooks to virtual ones. The school board at its Tuesday meeting approved digital curriculum and material [...]

Byline: Aaron Corvin July 08--Paper subsidies from the Chinese government are gouging U.S. manufacturing and could cost 5,000 jobs in Southwest Washington, according to a new analysis by the Economic [...]

Byline: Julia Anderson Jun. 17--Reversing 23 years of U.S. trade policy, the Department of Commerce this month said it will impose sanctions on some imports of white paper made in [...]

Byline: Tom Vogt Sep. 30--'That's the way we roll,' some people will tell you. But a group of community-minded Prairie High School students actually have some numbers to back that [...]

Byline: Julia Anderson Nov. 17--Georgia-Pacific is making it official -- the Atlanta-based company is cutting 300 to 400 jobs, or about 40 percent of the work force, at its pulp [...]

Byline: Susan Parrish Feb. 19--Students at CASEE release Chinese lanterns BRUSH PRAIRIE ­-- Battle Ground students stood in a field and looked skyward Wednesday morning. While one student held a [...]

Byline: Sue Vorenberg Jan. 04--The Roach Paper Artist Cliff Maynard discovered his unusual artistic medium one stoned night in art school, as he clipped his way through copies of Fangoria [...]

Byline: Paris Achen Feb. 19--An Amboy man is accused of shooting at a man who was serving him with legal papers Sunday. Jason R. Baird, 32, appeared Tuesday in Clark [...]

Byline: Howard Buck Jan. 05--Map see more mapped stories A paper tiger is on the prowl, perking up a Central Vancouver neighborhood and creating a scene. Make that Paper Tiger [...]

Byline: Aaron Corvin Sept. 12--The joint venture that wants to build the largest oil-handling operation in the Pacific Northwest has filed papers to secure the necessary permit, officially setting Vancouver [...]

Byline: Bob Albrecht March 14--An overturned semi-truck carrying recycled paper triggered a two-hour closure Monday morning on state Highway 14, four miles east of Washougal. Rock Eggleston, 53, of Idaho [...]

Byline: Paris Achen Aug. 19--As part of the Clark County Courthouse's blossoming courtship with the digital age, District Court will require attorneys and government agencies to start filing certain documents [...]

Byline: Tom Vogt July 01--The state has added another element to picking up a prescription, with a new version of tamper-resistant prescription paper going into effect today. The new pads [...]

Byline: Andrea Damewood March 01--The city of Vancouver has turned to Apple to save trees. Vancouver like all other local governments spends thousands of dollars each year in staff time [...]

Byline: Lou Brancaccio Aug. 1--As I landed at Midway Airport in Chicago, I was trying to figure out how I missed witnessing history by one day. One day! We flew [...]

Byline: Gretchen Fehrenbacher Mar. 16--A wholesale distributor of paper goods has relocated from Portland to a new $2.2 million building in Vancouver, with 17 employees and plans to grow. Concannon [...]

Byline: Becca Robbins May 12The Clark County Medical Examiner's Office identified the remains found near the Camas paper mill Wednesday as those of a 45-year-old Washington man. The remains were [...]

Byline: Cami Joner and Courtney Sherwood Mar. 1--33 people lose their jobs; work force in process of shrinking from 800 to 500 CAMAS -- The former paperworkers union president, Jeff [...]

Byline: Julia Anderson Dec. 10--With construction of The Columbian's $30 million downtown office building going strong, the next question is when will Publisher Scott Campbell build a parking facility to [...]

Byline: Courtney Sherwood Nov. 2--At least 20,000 tons of concrete, steel, wood and other debris will be hauled away from downtown Vancouver's waterfront by the end of the month, crews [...]

Sep. 12--Nonprofit groups sponsoring holiday bazaars are invited to send information to The Columbian for our annual list appearing in the Oct. 8 edition. Information must be postmarked no later [...]

Byline: John Branton Aug. 29--Court documents say a Nissan Frontier pickup that allegedly struck 7-year-old Trevor Wagner appears to match evidence found at the hit-and-run crash scene, including a piece [...]

Jun. 26--The Columbian, as it has done for many years, is including donation envelopes in today's newspaper so readers can support the annual Fourth of July fireworks show. Next week's [...]

Byline: Jonathan Nelson Nov. 10--The Port of Vancouver is working with private businesses and the city to realign a railroad line that potentially stands in the way of perhaps the [...]

Byline: Gretchen Fehrenbacher Jun. 20--Boise Cascade Co.'s 67 remaining workers in Vancouver face an uncertain future following an announcement Friday that the company plans to sell its Columbia riverfront property [...]

Byline: Tim Martinez Oct. 26CAMAS The Camas volleyball team is undefeated this season in matches that were at least three sets long. The problem is most of the Papermakers' matches [...]

Byline: Will Denner Sep. 16CAMAS Two straight non-league wins for the Camas football team against quality opponents had the Papermakers thinking Friday about how much progress they've made since week [...]

Byline: Sarah Wolf Mar. 30The Washington Court of Appeals recently upheld a $16.67 million jury verdict in favor of Sherrie Holdsworth, who lost her husband, Kevan a former Camas paper [...]

Byline: Meg Wochnick Mar. 1TACOMA By no means were the Camas Papermakers interested in making the Tacoma Dome a one-game pit stop. Making it to the Tacoma Dome for the [...]

Dec. 2The history of Camas is inextricably linked to the paper mill that sits along Camas Slough. So, too, is the city's future. 'The mill has been an active part [...]

Byline: Will Denner Sep. 29CAMAS More than a few Camas girls soccer players sported large ice packs after their game on Tuesday against Union, owing to the various knocks, bumps [...]

Byline: Tim Martinez Jul. 19CAMAS FOOTBALL SCHEDULE (Home games played at Doc Harris Stadium) (---4A Greater St. Helens League game) (subject to change) Fri., Sept. 2 Yelm, 7 p.m. Fri., [...]

Byline: Meg Wochnick Oct. 29CAMAS It's no surprise the way Jairus Phillips talks about Luke Jamison echoes similarly to how Jamison describes Phillips. When you're friends and teammates for as [...]