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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 allegations of his sexual involvement…
Clark County News
Kathleen Otto, shown here in 2018, is county manager for Clark County.

Most Clark County government employees are getting a 3 percent pay raise

About 1,100 employees of the Clark County government — about 70 percent of its total workforce — are getting a 3 percent raise. The Clark County Council approved the new…
Politics
Ashley Bugge, The Seabirds co-founder and master diver, hugs an iceberg after completing in-water research while in Antarctica in February 2024.

The Seabirds: Vancouver woman’s expedition team takes students to the far reaches of the world

Vancouver resident Ashley Bugge traversed the fjords off the shore of Tromsø, a city north of the Arctic Circle in Norway, with a group in 2022. Not long after, she…
Clark County News
The Washington State Legislature convenes for a joint session for a swearing-in ceremony of statewide elected officials and Governor Bob FergusonǃÙs inaugural address, March 15, 2025.

Tough times for Bob Ferguson as top aide resigns over hostile workplace allegations

Gov. Bob Ferguson’s top adviser and closest political confidant resigned Wednesday amid complaints that he fomented a toxic workplace that contributed to the departure of another key administration official.
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Cars sit in a parking lot next to the green Sept. 11 at Tri-Mountain Golf Course in Ridgefield. Clark County put the course up for sale last year, and the Cowlitz Indian Tribe planned to purchase it but pulled out.

Clark County Council renews contract for Tri-Mountain Golf Course through end of 2026

Fans of Tri-Mountain Golf Course can breathe a little easier. The county-owned golf course will remain open through the end of next year — but…

Business

The Heights area near the former Tower Mall sits Oct. 11, 2022, in Vancouver. Two developers have now submitted their plans for the first soon-to-be developed section of the Heights District development area.

Affordable apartments, senior housing: Developer has plans for site in Vancouver’s Heights District

Another developer has submitted plans for a housing project in Vancouver’s Heights District.

Northwest

FILE - Earielle London looks back as she and other students from Alabama A&M and Tuskegee Universities march into the woods for a wildland firefighter training June 9, 2023, in Hazel Green, Ala.

Trump backs higher pay for wildland firefighters while DOGE cuts wildfire support staff

Wildland firefighters will keep a four-year-old pay hike under a GOP-led spending bill signed by President Donald Trump, but many worry that mass federal worker…

Sports

Hudson's Bay senior MJ Westmorland stands for a portrait Wednesday, March 12, 2025, at Hazel Dell Lanes. Westmorland is The Columbian's All-Region girls bowler of the year.

MJ Westmorland of Hudson’s Bay selected as the All-Region girls bowler of the yearvideo icon

MJ Westmorland was on the verge of getting the chance to bowl one shot for a state individual championship.

Politics

President Donald Trump arrives at the annual St. Patrick’s Day luncheon at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 12, 2025. (AP Photo/J.

Trump orders a plan to dismantle the Education Department while keeping some core functions

 President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling for the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department, advancing a campaign promise to take apart an agency that’s…

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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

FILE - A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.

Flu deaths rise as anti-vaccine disinformation takes root

Americans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of growing vaccine skepticism taking hold in…

Nation / World

Recently declassified documents related to the President John F. Kennedy assassination are seen Wednesday, March 19, 2025, in Nashville, Tenn.

People named in JFK assassination documents are not happy their personal information was released

Sensitive personal information including Social Security numbers was unveiled in the newly unredacted John F. Kennedy assassination documents released this week, and that is not…

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Opinion

March 20: Donkey in the Headlights

Editorial Cartoons for Week of March 17, 2025

In Our View: Trump’s attacks threaten judicial review

DePetris: Trump goes to war in Yemen

Letter: Support Battle Ground levy

Letter: Thanks to councilor Belkot

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

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