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Thousands of Clark County residents qualify to have drug convictions vacated because of the Blake decision.

Thousands in Clark County eligible to have drug convictions vacated and legal fees refunded

Four years since the Washington Supreme Court’s Blake decision, which declared the state’s previous simple drug-possession law unconstitutional, state data shows only about a quarter of eligible Clark County convictions…
Courts & Crime
Isaac Gil, a 2024 Washougal High School graduate, will compete at World Fighting Championships 175 on May 10 in Tacoma.

Washougal grad Isaac Gil drawn to high stakes of mixed martial arts fighting

Isaac Gil had a decision to make after graduating from Washougal High School in 2024 — continue wrestling at the college level or launch a mixed martial arts fighting career.
Sports
This fine Chinook was taken off Long Beach last year while fishing with guide Bob Rees. The Chinook seasons have yet to be set, but all the proposed options allow for more Chinook catch than last year.

Spring means lots of nearby salt-water fishing options

Washington’s salt water seasons officially started on March 8 when the bottom fishing season opened.
Clark County Life

Clark County

Hudson's Bay High School students gather in front of the Vancouver Public Schools administrative services building Jan. 6 while protesting the district's handing of sexual allegations against a Hudson's Bay teacher. A third party report indicated the district missed red flags in its handling of the case.

Hudson’s Bay administrators failed to spot red flags in handling of sexual allegations against Vancouver teacher, says report

Third-party investigations released Wednesday found Vancouver Public Schools administrators did not appropriately discipline former Hudson’s Bay High School English teacher Shadbreon Gatson or thoroughly investigate…

Business

In this photo provided by Gigablue, circular structures called booms containing particles engineered by the company Gigablue, float in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Dunedin, New Zealand, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, as part of a project to grow tiny organisms known as phytoplankton that absorb carbon dioxide from the ocean.

Ocean dumping – or a climate solution? A growing industry bets on the ocean to capture carbon

From the grounds of a gas-fired power plant on the eastern shores of Canada, a little-known company is pumping a slurry of minerals into the…

Northwest

Green Hill School in Chehalis in 2024. Prison riot offenses are regularly filed against youth at Green Hill School, a juvenile rehabilitation facility in Chehalis which has been overcapacity for the past year.

Washington state lawmakers aim to relieve strained juvenile legal system

With overcrowding at one of Washington’s two youth prisons hitting a crisis point, state lawmakers this legislative session have homed in on juvenile crime and…

Sports

Houston guard Emanuel Sharp (21) tries to shoot around Gonzaga guard Dusty Stromer (4) during the second half of the second round of the NCAA college basketball tournament, Saturday, March 22, 2025, in Wichita, Kan.

No. 1 seed Houston holds off Gonzaga comeback, beats No. 8 seed Bulldogs 81-76 to reach Sweet 16

LJ Cryer matched a career high with 30 points, including two free throws with 14.2 seconds left, and No. 1 seed Houston held on to…

Politics

A harvester crane processes a log on a thinning project in the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. The project was led by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the result of growing efforts by state agencies to conduct work on federal land. President Donald Trump’s plans to increase logging on federal lands will depend heavily on states’ cooperation, experts say.

Trump wants to log more trees. He’ll need states’ help.

Earlier this month, President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders to increase logging in national forests and on other federal lands.

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Traffic passes Chinook Elementary School as classes end for the day on Thursday afternoon. Clark County is going to be doing road work along Northwest 139th Street.

139th Street project that removes lane in front of schools has Salmon Creek residents worried

A planned road improvement project on Northwest 139th Street has some Salmon Creek residents saying the county needs to go back to the drawing board.

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Health

About 93 million CT scans are performed every year in the United States, according to IMV, a medical market research company that tracks imaging. More than half of those scans are for people 60 and older. Yet there is scant regulation of radiation levels as the machines scan organs and structures inside bodies. Dosages are erratic, varying widely from one clinic to another, and are too often unnecessarily high, Smith-Bindman and other critics say.

Some CT scans deliver too much radiation, researchers say. Regulators want to know more

Rebecca Smith-Bindman, a professor at the University of California-San Francisco medical school, has spent well over a decade researching the disquieting risk that one of…

Life

One of two cougar cubs photographed in Michigan, the first confirmed sightings in about a century.

Wild mountain lion cubs found in Michigan for first time in century

Two mountain lion cubs have been photographed in Michigan, a state where the big cats were hunted to near extinction and their young haven’t been…

Nation / World

Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is escorted into a helicopter at Mexico City's airport on Jan. 8, 2016, following his recapture by the Mexican military in Los Mochis, in Sinaloa State.

What’s it like to defend a Mexican cartel boss? Reputed drug lords seek lawyers in US

On a single day late last month, the Mexican government shipped 29 accused drug lords north across the border to face U.S. justice.

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March 21:  Trump Economy

Editorial Cartoons for Week of March 17, 2025

In Our View: Focus of annexation should be on residents

Brown: Building goes, but history remains

Other Papers Say: Gun measure could backfire

Harrop: Keep your elbows up, Canadians

The Cowlitz Tribe won't buy the Tri-Mountain Golf Course. What should happen next?

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