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Clark County Fire District 6 Chief Kristan Maurer resigned Friday after the district’s commissioners decided to “move in a different direction.” (The Columbian files)

Clark County Fire District 6 chief steps down

Kristan Maurer, the first woman to serve as fire chief of Clark County Fire District 6, announced her resignation Friday.
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A notice of proposed development sign stands on the city of Camas’ Well 13 property off Southeast Cramer Lane on Thursday afternoon. A Camas hearings examiner will oversee a public hearing at 5 p.m. May 29 at Camas City Hall to consider the city’s plan to build a treatment facility on the Well 13 site to remove toxic PFAS, known as “forever chemicals,” from the public drinking water well.

Camas to bring PFAS-tainted Well 13 back online this week

To meet increased water demand during the summer months, the city of Camas plans to bring Well 13 back online this week, even though it has the city’s highest levels…
Clark County Business
Vancouver Fire Department crews fight a fire at Abhiruchi Indian Cuisine early Monday morning in east Vancouver.

Abhiruchi Indian Cuisine damaged in an early morning fire in east Vancouver

An early morning fire Monday damaged Abhiruchi Indian Cuisine in east Vancouver.
3 hours ago
Clark County News
Luke Clark, left, looks on as his mother, Dawnell Tillery, orders them food at the restaurant in their Portland hotel after a long drive on April 22.

Vancouver’s Dawnell Tillery has given up everything to care for her autistic son Luke but she is running out of options

Dawnell Tillery never had an easy time when it came to her second born. At 2, Luke Clark was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, now considered a subset of autism…
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Staff transport new computer equipment through the empty hallways at Battle Ground High School in 2020. The district purchased Chromebooks for students in the 2022 fiscal year using money from the Federal Communications Commission’s Emergency Connectivity Fund.

FCC: Battle Ground schools complied with use of federal pandemic grant money

A federal investigation ruled Battle Ground Public Schools complied with the district’s use of federal grant money during the pandemic, despite the state’s 2023 findings.

Business

A Wenatchee apple orchard is shown during sunset. The Wenatchee Valley is the third-largest apple-producing region in the state.

Washington apple industry weathers tariff strains; concerns remain over trade war escalation

Washington’s apple industry continues to be a bedrock of economic opportunity, trade and commerce for North Central Washington communities, despite harsh trade policies affecting the…

Northwest

A sign and fence at the Green Hill School for juvenile offenders, in Chehalis, Washington.

No fixes on horizon for crowding crisis in WA’s youth prisons

Problems with overcrowding have enveloped the Green Hill School juvenile detention center in Chehalis for nearly two years, leading to unsafe conditions for the minors…

Politics

FILE - Women and girls look on as President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order barring transgender female athletes from competing in women’s or girls’ sporting events, in the East Room of the White House, Wednesday, Feb.

Transgender issues are a strength for Trump, AP-NORC poll finds

About half of U.S. adults approve of how President Donald Trump is handling transgender issues, according to a new poll — a relative high point…

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Pooneh Gray, who garnered media attention for her efforts to reopen her mother’s 1989 murder case, is running for Position 1 on the Vancouver City Council.

‘I plan on being an advocate for victims’: Daughter of murder victim seeks Vancouver City Council seat

Pooneh Gray, a Vancouver woman who garnered media attention for her efforts to reopen her mother’s 1989 murder case, is running for Vancouver City Council.

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Health

In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2010 photo, two residents of the Rainier School, a state-run care facility in Buckley, Wash., for the developmentally disabled, watch television. In the past seven decades, the Rainier School has changed from a massive institution with almost 2,000 patients, to one that now intimately cares for 350. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Fight to close $52M Rainier School for adults with disabilities is over. What’s next?

A heated debate concerning the future of the Rainier School in Buckley has winded down for now.

Life

In this photo provided by researchers, a wild male chimpanzee drums on a buttress tree while producing a pant-hoot call as he joins his groupmates in the Budongo Forest of Uganda in May 2017.

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a form of ancient communication

Chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks, a new study shows.

Nation / World

A neighborhood is seen including the expressway overpass that took the place of the home of the grandparents of Pope Leo XIV, at the site of the former home, in the 7th Ward of New Orleans Friday, May 9, 2025.

Pope Leo XIV’s Creole heritage highlights complex history of racism and the church in America

The new pope’s French-sounding last name, Prevost, intrigued Jari Honora, a New Orleans genealogist, who began digging in the archives and discovered the pope had…

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