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Evergreen Public Schools board of directors president Rob Perkins, from left, member Gary Wilson and Superintendent John Boyd listen to public comment Tuesday evening at an Evergreen Public Schools board of directors meeting at district headquarters in Vancouver. The board voted to approve $18.7 million budget cuts to the district next year.

Evergreen school district approves $18.7 million in budget reductions

The Evergreen Public Schools board of directors voted 4-1 Tuesday night to cut $18.7 million from the 2024-2025 school year budget, including 151 staff positions.
Clark County News
Vancouver City Hall in downtown Vancouver.

Vancouver officials developing new green building policy

Vancouver officials want to curb greenhouse gas emissions from some of the biggest polluters in the city: buildings.
Clark County Business
Battle Ground police Sgt. Richard Kelly died from a fentanyl and methamphetamine overdose. The office ruled his death an accident.

Battle Ground police Sgt. Richard Kelly confiscated illicit drugs hours before overdosing, says report

Battle Ground police Sgt. Richard Kelly confiscated illicit drugs hours before he suffered a fatal overdose in his office, the Cowlitz County Sheriff’s Office found.
Clark County News
The Washington Department of Ecology has sent an administrative order to Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad which confirms rail work polluted state waters.

Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad ordered to comply with water pollution laws

The operator of a 33-mile railroad through Clark County continues to run afoul of state environmental regulations. On Monday, the Washington State Department of Ecology ordered Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad…
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A house that caught fire Wednesday morning in the Fourth Plain Village neighborhood. Two cats died in the fire and one person was displaced, the fire department said.

Two cats killed in house fire in central Vancouver

Two cats were killed in a house fire in the Fourth Plain Village neighborhood Wednesday morning.

Northwest

FILE - Legendary Seattle mountain climbers twin brothers Jim, left, and Lou Whittaker celebrate their 80th birthday with a party at the Space Needle in Seattle, Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009. Lou Whittaker, a Seattle-born and -raised mountaineer and glacier travel guide who climbed Mount Rainier more than 250 times, died Sunday, March 24, 2024. He was 95.

Lou Whittaker, among the most famous American mountaineers, has died at age 95

Lou Whittaker, a legendary American mountaineer who helped lead ascents of Mount Everest, K2 and Denali, and who taught generations of climbers during his more…

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Sports

Washington deputy athletic director Erin O'Connell, right, introduces men's basketball coach Danny Sprinkle, Wednesday, March 27, 2024, in Seattle.

Taking over at Washington feels very personal for Danny Sprinkle

It was personal for Danny Sprinkle when, after a decade as an assistant coach, his first chance at being a head coach came at his…

Politics

FILE - President Barack Obama, flanked by Vice President Joe Biden, left, and former President Bill Clinton, right, pose for a photo with the U.S. World Cup soccer team under the North Portico of the White House in Washington, May 27, 2010. President Joe Biden will share a stage with Barack Obama and Bill Clinton on Thursday in New York as he raises money for his reelection campaign. It&rsquo;s a one-of-a-kind political extravaganza that will showcase decades of Democratic leadership.

Biden leans on his Democratic predecessors as Trump remains isolated from other Republican leaders

When President Joe Biden needs advice, there are two people he can turn to who know what it’s like to sit in his chair. Sometimes…

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Kevin West, 49, of Washougal appears Monday in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree murder in the Jan. 8 strangulation death of his wife, Marcelle &ldquo;Marcy&rdquo; West.

Camas-Washougal Fire battalion chief accused of killing wife had yearslong affair, according to court documents

A Camas-Washougal Fire Department battalion chief suspected of strangling his wife in January was apparently having an on-and-off affair for 20 years, and he planned…

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FILE - Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf at the West Alabama Women&#039;s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on March 16, 2022. On Tuesday, March 26, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court will take up a case that could impact how women get access to mifepristone, one of the two pills used in the most common type of abortion in the nation. (AP Photo/Allen G.

What the Supreme Court abortion pill case could mean for WA

As the country parsed U.S. Supreme Court justices’ questions in a case that could restrict access to abortion pills, local Planned Parenthood leaders and Democratic…

Life

All hail Chainsaw: the big guy with the jagged dorsal fin who, together with his fellow Bigg’s killer whales, has already racked up a record number of sightings of the orcas for 2023.

These Puget Sound orcas could be designated as distinct species

For more than a century, killer whales have been understood to be just one worldwide species, Orcinus orca, with many types.

Nation / World

Investigation of Baltimore bridge collapse picks up speed as divers recover 2 bodies from water

The cargo ship that lost power and crashed into a bridge in Baltimore underwent “routine engine maintenance” in the port beforehand, the U.S. Coast Guard…

Economic Forecast &#8211; March 2024

Economic Forecast – March 2024

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Opinion

March 28: Boeing CEO

Editorial Cartoons for Week of March 25

In Our View: Industrial pollution has no place in school zone

Camden: Takeaways from primary results

Letter: Climate Act ‘fee’ is shocking

Letter: Keep tolls, crime off new bridge

How much has your natural gas bill increased this winter?

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