A Vancouver man arrested by ICE was transferred from Tacoma to El Paso, Texas and now Brazil, Indiana, each time making it harder for his family to find him a lawyer

The price tag for the Interstate Bridge Replacement between Oregon and Washington is expected to jump on Monday. Here's why:

Good news for schools and rural counties across the Pacific Northwest. Today's reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools act replaces money from lost timber revenue

The Vancouver man whose foot ICE agents allegedly drove over while arresting him spoke in a video call on Monday

The Crime Writers On crew listens to approximately 1 billion podcasts every year. I would trust their opinion more than almost anyone on what's good and what's not. Appreciate their support and kind words.

After an incident over the summer where an excavator bucket fell on a construction worker, Rotschy Inc. has been fined $170K by Washington's L&I department

Headed out for Black Friday? One Vancouver small businesses owner said sales were like “a second COVID” from months of construction downtown

Interested in getting started in public media? OPB has a few paid internship opportunities open now

Willapa Bay in Southwest Washington is know around the world for its oysters, but every summer it also turns into a shark superhighway. Northwest researchers have been trying to figure out why, and they have some turned up some clues.

Sad news today about a community leader in Southwest Washington

The bi-state effort to build a new bridge spanning the Columbia River reached a deal to pay four companies a combined $140 million, the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program announced Tuesday.

In lighter news to start to your week, I spent some time recently with athletes at the Washington State School for the Blind learning about goalball, a sport based around sound

The ruling last week from U.S. District Court Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump appointee, followed a three-day trial in which both sides argued over whether protests at the city’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building met the conditions for using the military domestically under federal law.

A truly amazing work by OPB's @lmiller12.bsky.social and Rob Manning is out today. They followed Oregon students FOR 13 YEARS!!! to document their lives from kindergarten through high school to track the goal of 100% graduation rates

Anne McEnerny-Ogle won a third term as mayor of Vancouver on Tuesday night, beating her opponent Justin Forsman by a wide margin. Voters in Vancouver also appeared to be approving Proposition 5, based on early results.

A lot has been said about Democratic Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez's wins in Southwest Washington. Some are now trying to copy that success to flip the U.S. House in 2026

Crosscut is dead. Long live Crosscut. Today’s the official last day for me and my Cascade PBS newsroom colleagues. We did good work over the decades and it is supremely sad to see it shut down.

“We’ll talk later about whether that’s contempt,” the judge responded"

On top of cuts to SNAP and Medicaid, some families are now contending with closures of low-income child care www.opb.org/article/2025...

Remember to vote! There are some important and contested races in Southwest Washington. Here are a few that stand out

A controversial billboard on I-5 between Seattle and Portland has a new owner, the Chehalis Tribe, and a simple message: “Native land.”

Hard to explain the significance of salmon being recorded in Upper Klamath Lake, beyond all the river’s dams. Another example of the success of the largest dam removal in U.S. history

An ethics complaint was filed against a Vancouver city councilor. The allegations have mostly been dismissed but it was filed curiously close to her re-election bid on Nov. 4.

The small protests at Portland's ICE building are filled with a whole variety of social media influencers and online streamers. As one researcher described it to me: "they start out with an ideological vision of the world and then narrate what they see in a way that fits that vision."

Loved this snapshot of life in rural California from @romanbattaglia.com. A much-needed break from the news

Lots of federal workers are going without pay right now. Washington and Oregon want you to know stopgap benefits are available

President Donald Trump is sending 300 California National Guard members to Oregon after a judge blocked the administration from deploying that state’s guard to Portland, according to California Gov. Gavin Newsom. apnews.com/article/nati...

“This country has a longstanding and foundational tradition of resistance to government overreach,” Immergut wrote in her opinion, “especially in the form of military intrusion into civil affairs.” Immergut was appointed by President Trump in 2019.

Apropos of nothing -- Portland police arrested and shot munitions at dozens of journalists in 2020. I don't remember a DOJ investigation then.

$400 million in climate grants cut "The projects are in the following states: CA, CO, CT, DE, HI, IL, MD, MA, MN, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OR, VT, WA" -Russell Vought

Lots of federal workers are going without pay right now. Washington and Oregon want you to know stopgap benefits are available

With Vancouver pushing another levy to fund police officers next month, here's a look at why there's such a law enforcement shortage in the Southwest Washington city

The 60-day deployment of the National Guard to Portland ordered by President Trump on Sunday is expected to cost federal taxpayers at least $3.8 million.

The Oregon National Guard said it has begun the process of mobilizing guard members with law enforcement experience to comply with President Donald Trump’s deployment order for 200 troops in Portland, but it could be next week before there are actual boots on the ground.

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just got back from war ravaged portland. went to a dog park, bought a cook book for a birthday present. barely made it out alive.

Dozens of candidates in Clark County are running for an obscure commission to oversee the local constitution. As one told me, “I think it will test the boundary and put some definition to just exactly what is fair game for charter amendments."

What a loss for Northwest journalism. I did my first internship here when it was Crosscut

SW WA Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez splits with Democrats on government funding bill “I could not in good conscience vote to shut our government down" www.opb.org/article/2025...

The deal marks the end of a strike that pushed the start of the school year back three weeks for the district’s nearly 22,000 students. A ratification vote is expected today.

Last night, small cities in Clark County successfully lobbied to hold onto their voting power on the C-TRAN board. But it could put millions at stake in transit funding www.opb.org/article/2025...

OPB's legal team wins again! After months of opposing the release of a third-party investigation into sexual abuse at St. Helens High School, that report is now public thanks to OPB.

Questions about who can be on Clark County's C-TRAN board seem to have mostly been answered in a terse letter from Washington state yesterday: “WSDOT does not believe the proposed 3-3-3 Board composition complies with the law” www.opb.org/article/2025...

Federal agents showed up northeast of Lake Cushman to check identification of crew members fighting Washington's largest active wildfire.

"Hogan said he talked with representatives from the county’s other small cities Aug. 11, and they indicated their concern that the city of Vancouver is going to “stack the deck with proportionality on votes.”" 🧐

A Rotary Club in rural Oregon is not high on the list of places I would expect a Republican politician to get booed.

Congress failing to reauthorize Secure Rural Schools funding was the last straw for the Wind River Middle School in Carson, Washington, which will be closed this fall.

It’s true. If I had learned this… I dunno, 35 years ago?… I’d have had a very different writing career.

Fort Vancouver is hosting its bicentennial tomorrow. It's happening after the fort lost a third of its staff to federal layoffs and amid government directives that say none of their history books should disparage Americans, living or dead.

Vancouver's housing construction is at a historic low. One solution: remove parking. “If nothing new gets built over the next couple years, we’re going to be headed into another major rent spike”