Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Deputies successfully rescued a 7-year-old girl who had spent the night stranded on a steep hillside near Lake Merwin in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 7-year-old girl was reunited with her family early Monday morning after she reportedly disappeared overnight from a campsite ...

Fire burns in 20-year-old timber north of Lake Merwin on Saturday. The fire was reported at about 3 p.m. and had blacked about 70 acres by 6 p.m. A forest fire burning in 20-year-old timber north of ...

A trailer at Lake Merwin Campers Hideaway caught fire Saturday, destroying the trailer, melting the siding of another trailer and igniting nearby brush. Bystanders reported hearing an explosion and ...

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AMBOY, Wash. — A 7-year-old girl was rescued Monday morning from a steep section of shoreline at a campground in Clark County after a fisherman heard her crying for help. She'd been reported missing ...

Richard Borneman of Vancouver kneels on the Speelyai Bay dock holding a string of kokanee caught at at the Merwin Reservoir in this file photo. The boat launch is closed for two weeks starting Jan. 19 ...

The water recreation park at Speelyai on Lake Merwin will be unusable and closed for about 20 days during a federally required drawdown for maintenance on the spillway gates at the dam. The PacifiCorp ...

Forty-four years later, for the second time in his life, George Simonsen was saving the lives of three more people from drowning. On Friday afternoon, Simonsen, Mallory Smith and Randy Lonborg were ...