A dozen protesters affiliated with the Service Employees International Union occupied the state Office of Administrative Hearings in Vancouver Tuesday and staged a sit-down strike at closing time Tuesday to protest recent state cuts to in-home care.

The state supplemental transportation budgets proposed by the Senate and House include funding for Southwest Washington highway projects, including the plan to replace the Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River.

WASHOUGAL — It’s $1.75 for a standard-size top loader, $3.50 for a big front loader and $4.50 for a superloader. Then, it’s 25 cents for a meager seven minutes of drying time, which is never close to enough. Plus, there’s detergent. Add it all up, and the price of doing your laundry is as much as a decent meal or a gas tank top-off.

Pete, a 24-year-old eastern black rhinoceros and one of the most popular animals at the Oregon Zoo, was euthanized Tuesday due to advanced kidney failure.

A public hearing draws a crowd of 100, mostly employees of two hospice providers at odds over a proposal to build a second inpatient hospice center in Clark County.

County's largest inpatient substance abuse facility to remain open.

The "Portlandia" spoof, "Vancouvria," already put a flag on it, so our love for gas-guzzling SUVs was bound to come next.

Police activity on Tuesday morning temporarily closed eastbound Fourth Plain Boulevard at Simpson Boulevard, just east of Fruit Valley Road.

A man's body was found early Tuesday in Vancouver's Fourth Plain Village neighborhood near the intersection of Norris Road and East 32nd Street.

Residents concerned about an increase in the amount of coal to be transported through Vancouver can learn more about the issue at a meeting at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Vancouver Community Library, 901 C St.