Toxic algae warning issued at Lacamas, Round lakes in Camas Clark County Public Health has issued warning advisories for Lacamas Lake and Round Lake due to elevated levels of cyanotoxins from blue-green algae. Public Health collected water samples from both Camas...

For more than a year, our country longed for the economy to restart. But now that businesses are once again open, employers find themselves wondering where all the workers have gone. In my town of Durango, Colorado, labor shortages have deeply affected the entire...

With initial research and outreach well underway, Camas officials are now eyeing the start of the second, more extensive, piece of the city’s two-phase lake management plan. “In mid- to late June, we got started with Phase 1,” Camas Public Works Director Steve Wall...

There was no garden to speak of in 2008, when Ken and Marge Crouch found the 1.7-acre Camas property that would someday become their oasis. “There was nothing here,” Ken said. “There was no curb appeal.” Today — after years of hard work, mixed with ingenuity,...

Steve Sutton wasn’t completely confident that his Camas-Washougal 15U all-star baseball team could make a deep run at the Pacific Northwest Babe Ruth 13-15 regional tournament, held July 26-31 in Kelso. Sutton knew his team was talented, of course, but he also knew...

Camas lakes had a reprieve from toxic algae this summer, but the fact that the dangerous blooms have returned to Lacamas and Round lakes is not surprising. The algal blooms, after all, have been a growing problem in Camas for a few years. In 2020, toxic algal blooms...