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Two C-Tran buses are pictured near Clark College in Vancouver. The transit agency passed its 2025 and 2026 budgets Tuesday night.

‘It’s time to take a victory lap’: C-Tran plans for growth with $93M budget for 2025

Anticipating future growth, C-Tran’s board of directors on Tuesday unanimously approved the agency’s $93.1 million budget for 2025 and $98.4 million budget for 2026.
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Ridgefield High School Principal Christen Palmer, left, speaks during Tuesday’s school board meeting at Ridgefield Administration and Civic Center. During the meeting, the school board voted to place two levies on February’s ballot.

Ridgefield School District puts two levies on February ballot; building third elementary school proposed

The Ridgefield school board Tuesday voted unanimously to place two three-year levies on the Feb. 11 special election ballot.
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Election
Cleanup crews remove solid waste along the Mill Plain Boulevard sound wall while joined by officials and members of the HART team. The city plans to close the camp around February.

‘We’re going in the right direction’: Vancouver has cleaned camps, expanded staff in year since homelessness emergency declared

In the year since Vancouver declared homelessness a civil emergency, the city has closed areas to camping and opened new shelters, but many people remain on the streets.
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16-year-old special education student is not receiving court-ordered services from Hockinson School District

A 16-year-old nonverbal, disabled student with a rare disease is no longer receiving court-ordered educational services from the Hockinson School District.
Health

Clark County

The city-owned arts hub, left, next to VITA Elementary School, will serve as a warming shelter through March, igniting parents' concern.

City’s plan to open winter shelter near Vancouver Innovation, Technology and Arts Elementary upsets parents

Vancouver’s plans to open a winter shelter Saturday next to an elementary school have ignited fear and anger among parents.

Business

The Shari’s restaurant on Chkalov Drive in Vancouver’s Cascade Park neighborhood is permanently closed.

Already in trouble, PNW restaurant chain Shari’s now target of lawsuits in Washington, Oregon

A once-prolific but now much-reduced Northwest restaurant chain is the focus of two class-action lawsuits involving former employees as well as job applicants.

Northwest

FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2017, file photo, a sales clerk hands a pistol, being sold on behalf of the Aberdeen Police Department, to a customer to look at before an auction at Johnny's Auction House, where the company handles gun sales for police departments and the Lewis County Sheriff's Office, in Rochester, Wash. After years of trying, the Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, that allows the State Patrol to destroy guns they confiscated during criminal investigations.

Gun group wants new taxes and permits for WA firearm sales

Washington’s leading gun control group wants state lawmakers to make it tougher and more expensive to buy a firearm.

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Sports

Seattle Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet (26) scores a touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz.

Charbonnet runs for career-high 134 yards, 2 TDs as NFC West-leading Seahawks beat Cardinals 30-18

Zach Charbonnet ran for a career-high 134 yards and two touchdowns, Geno Smith threw for 233 yards and a score, and the Seattle Seahawks beat…

Politics

FILE - A crew works on a gas drilling rig at a well site for shale based natural gas in Zelienople, Pa. June 25, 2012.

Making a $1B investment in the U.S.? Trump pledges expedited permits — but there are hurdles

President-elect Donald Trump is promising expedited federal permits for energy projects and other construction worth more than $1 billion. But like other Trump plans, the…

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The Vancouver City Council recently approved plans for a new food cart pod and assisted living facility near Vancouver Mall.

Vancouver council OKs Van Mall mixed-use development plan; food cart pod, taproom, assisted living facility to be built in phases

The Vancouver City Council approved a mixed-use master plan last week for a long-awaited food cart pod in the Van Mall neighborhood, as well as…

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Health

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2013 file photo, various cuts of beef and pork are displayed for sale in the meat department at a discount market in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/J.

More beans and less red meat: Nutrition experts weigh in on U.S. dietary guidelines

Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables, all while continuing to limit added…

Life

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2023 photo provided by NOIRLab, meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a program of the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab, located about 56 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Tucson in the Tohono O'odham Nation.

How to catch the Geminids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year

among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It’s one of the year’s last chances to see fireballs in…

Nation / World

Archaeologist James Greene walks through a slave cemetery Monday, Dec. 9, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. The site was discovered at The Hermitage, the home of former President Andrew Jackson.

The burial site of the people Andrew Jackson enslaved was lost. The Hermitage says it is found

At least 26 enslaved people died on the Tennessee plantation of President Andrew Jackson between 1804 and the end of the Civil War in 1865.…

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Editorial Cartoons for the Week of Dec. 9, 2024

Camden: DOGE has echoes of Reagan effort

Letter: Right-wing hypocrisy is exhausting

Letter: Fear of immigrants has long history

In Our View: Senators must assert nation’s trust in vaccines

Should historical markers be reviewed and updated?

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