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Law enforcement officers investigate Dec. 5 after Vancouver police shot and killed a man there the night before. It was the seventh police shooting in Clark County in 2024.

‘It’s alarming’: Police shootings in Clark County hit a 30-year high

Law enforcement officers in Clark County fatally shot six people in 2024 and wounded one other, the highest number for a single year in three decades.
Clark County News
Washougal School District Interim Superintendent Aaron Hansen stands at the west end of a 31-acre property in north Washougal on Jan. 2. The district is reconsidering its intentions to purchase the property for a new school site.

Washougal schools put plan to buy 31-acre property on hold

The Washougal School District is reconsidering its plans to acquire a 31-acre property for a future school site after neighbors raised concerns.
Schools
These clients of Marvin’s Guide Service caught there two keepers immediately after the baits hit the river bottom. Guide Henkel had his boat limited out by 8:15.

Anglers angry after crowds force quick sturgeon closure at Bonneville Pool fishery

While some guides and anglers were not surprised by a quick sturgeon fishery closure last week, they are not happy about how this fishery has been managed in recent years.
Clark County News
The afternoon sun illuminates the Legislative Building, left, and the Insurance Building, right, at the Capitol in Olympia in October 2018. Insurance industry representatives this week offered state lawmakers their breakdown of what’s behind the increase in home and auto insurance rates. They also explained how heightened risks from wildfires and other climate-related disasters are causing insurers to rethink underwriting in some regions. (Ted S.

Poll: WA voters want 2025 Legislature to focus on their pocketbooks

Washington voters have a clear message for state legislators: Make life more affordable.
Politics

Clark County

Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files 
 Camas City councilors approved a property purchase to replace the current Camas Public Works Operations Center, 1620 S.E. Eighth Ave., which the city has outgrown.

Camas City Council votes to spend $6.17M on land for future public works center

Camas City Council members on Monday narrowly approved a $6.17 million property purchase that will eventually house the city’s public works operations center.

Business

In this National Transportation Safety Board handout, an opening is seen in the fuselage of Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 Boeing 737-9 MAX on Jan. 7, 2024, in Portland, Oregon. A door-sized section near the rear of the Boeing 737-9 MAX plane blew off 10 minutes after Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 took off from Portland, Oregon, on Jan. 5 on its way to Ontario, California.

Disaster dogged Boeing in 2024. Can it turn around in 2025?

A year after a panel blew off a 737 Max midflight, Boeing says mistakes like those leading up to the near-disaster on Jan. 5, 2024,…

Northwest

A speed limit sign is posted near the intersection of Northeast 18th Street and 172nd Avenue. The speed will not change in that area, but new speed signs will be added.

Rules of the Road: Who sets Washington’s speed limits, and how are they determined?

Q: It’s obvious that many drivers routinely exceed the speed limit in many areas, not just on freeways. So the next logical question is: How…

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Sports

Camas players celebrate after the final buzzer Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, following the Papermakers’ 71-69 win against Union at Camas High School.

Camas girls basketball team has final say against Union in back-and-forth, 71-69 winvideo icon

Titans’ furious second-half rally falls just short as Papermakers make key plays in the clutch

Politics

President Joe Biden speaks from the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Sept. 30, 2024.

Biden speaks with relatives of Americans held by Taliban, but deal to bring them home still elusive

President Joe Biden spoke Sunday with relatives of three Americans the U.S. government is looking to bring home from Afghanistan, but it was unclear from…

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Cleanup crews remove solid waste along the Mill Plain Boulevard soundwall while joined by officials and members of the HART team in July. Tyler Chavers, the city’s homeless response coordinator and a former Vancouver police officer, said he’s seen tires slashed, fireworks and rocks thrown at camps, as well as derogatory graffiti around camps over the last five years.

‘The yelling, the screaming, the rock throwing’: Harassment and violence toward Clark County homeless on rise

Homeless people in Vancouver are increasingly the target of harassment and violence as exasperation toward encampments has grown over the past several years.

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Health

The tiny Baker County health department offers lots of services, including home visits by a nurse for new moms and infants.

For many rural women, finding maternity care outweighs concerns about abortion access

In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour…

Life

On live reality TV, national audience sees Seattle suburb through a cop’s lens

On a warm July night, Sgt. Steve Ross saunters up to a half-dressed couple in a white Ford pickup, startling them near Everett’s East Marine…

Nation / World

People crowd Bourbon Street near the intersection of Canal Street in New Orleans, Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025, as they memorialize the victims of the New Year’s Day deadly truck attack and shooting.

Safety of Bourbon Street is debated: Jan. 1 attack raised familiar concerns in New Orleans district

The second-guessing began before the bodies had been cleared from the debris of the deadly Bourbon Street truck attack.

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Editorial Cartoons for Week of Jan. 6, 2025

In Our View: Hatred will never reduce homelessness

Local View: America will be the nation we all make it

Other Papers Say: Delve for true picture of education

Finley: Carter made me a conservative

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