The Columbian

The Columbian

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About this app

The Columbian is an independently owned, multi-platform publishing company with more than 125 years of serving Clark County, Washington.

Our motto is "Community begins here." We live up to that phrase by being your source of news, whether you pick up a print edition or find us on your phone.

We provide consistent coverage on a variety of topics impacting Clark County and its residents, including breaking news, government coverage, business news, sports updates, local events, and more.

Ratings and reviews

Not bad for reading a selection of stories from the paper, but it would be much better if it could replicate the whole paper better, especially for subscribers who's only other option is through the website. If also like to be able to manage my account/subscription through the app. Interactive abilities are missing too. Seems like there's a whole lot of functionally missing that would benefit a local paper.

Layout is not intuitive (meaning not chronological like you would expect from a news site). When I get alerts about breaking news articles and then tap on the notification it always brings me to the homepage, which more often than not doesn't have that article there yet. I have to navigate to the website instead of using the app

Terrible app for a decent local paper. At best, slow or unresponsive user experience. Often completely unable to open articles, particularly when clicking on a push notification.

What's new

This release fixed a scrolling issue in Android with the scrollable block series of articles.