Massachusetts-born soldier Lt. George Derby led a dual life as an Army topographer of significant ability and an ingenious humorist. Derby penned amusing satires, burlesques and books under the pen na ...

Authorities say a more than 100-vehicle pileup in whiteout conditions has closed part of a major interstate along the ...

Thursday’s storms followed two days of heavy snow and freezing rain in a swath of the eastern U.S. stretching from Kentucky to Washington, D.C., that caused hundreds of traffic accidents, knocked out ...

Snow and ice in whiteout conditions contributed to a pileup of more than 100 cars on a major highway connecting Oregon and Idaho, reportedly injuring several people, as a winter storm descended on the ...

Most locals have, at one time or another, encountered the Holcomb Creek Trestle.  The name is unknown to most, but ...

A weekly look back compiled by the Clark County Historical Museum from The Columbian archives available at columbian.newspapers.com or at the museum.

Among my favorite games to play with my kids is estimating the age of enormous trees we spot in the woods, and then bestowing ...

Last weekend, I went to the Black History Month pop-up museum hosted by the 1803 Fund. It was an important reminder of Oregon ...

Along Highway 30 between Portland and Astoria are some spectacular places to take in wildlife, including the "B-52s of the ...