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Students speak at the Battle Ground board meeting Monday.

Battle Ground schools: ‘No matter how much we don’t want this to happen, cuts are going to happen’

Many in the room sniffled and shed tears as the Battle Ground school board on Monday unanimously approved teacher and administrator layoffs in response to last week’s levy failure. The…
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The Camas School District headquarters (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

Students, parents, teachers ask Camas schools to save music programs from cuts

Those worried about proposed cuts to middle and high school music programs packed the Camas school board’s meeting room Monday evening.
Schools
Affordable housing advocates gather in Vancouver before heading to Olympia by bus on March 14. Advocates say the rent stabilization bill that the Legislature passed isn’t perfect but is a step in the right direction.

Is rent cap a step forward or backward? Clark County advocates on both sides of issue weigh in

Washington will likely cap rent increases, news that leaves Clark County renters relieved and landlords reeling.
Business
The Vancouver Fire Department and regional hazmat team respond to a fire in an electric scooter Monday in Vancouver. Smoke from battery fires can be toxic and flammable.

Hazmat team responds to electric scooter fire in Vancouver

The Vancouver Fire Department called the hazmat team Monday to deal with a fire in the battery of an electric scooter, according to a statement from the agency.
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Klarissa Hightower, third from left, poses for a hat contest alongside Sarah Copes, Joy Howard, Tangela Hills, Terri Johnson and Tracie Baldwin at Odyssey World International Education Services’ spring tea on Saturday. The nonprofit’s event aims to connect and uplift women of color.

‘Spring into Sisterhood’: Odyssey World hosts annual gathering dedicated to uplifting women

Women across Clark County commemorated spring over the weekend not with flowers, but by uplifting one another, celebrating friendship and gathering in sisterhood.

Business

The walk-behind trencher a 16-year-old boy was using to dig a channel for fence posts. He was injured so severely both of his legs were amputated.

Opportunity, not tragedy: Stronger labor protections for WA youth now law

Washington’s youngest workers are getting stronger labor protections under a bill that Gov. Bob Ferguson signed into law Monday afternoon.

Northwest

A large cardboard box litters northeast Padden Parkway near northeast 152nd Avenue in Vancouver in 2018.

WA lawmakers vote to hit litterbugs in their wallets. What it will cost you

People caught littering in Washington can expect to pay fines that may be more than double the current amount starting this summer.

Sports

Ruby Lew of Columbia River connects on a pitch against Kelso in the District 4 3A/2A slowpitch softball championship game at Heritage High School on Thursday, Oct. 17, 2024.

Prep highlights (April 28): Columbia River softball rallies past Woodland, 6-5

Columbia River softball came on strong late for a 6-5 win over Woodland that could be important in the chase for 2A Greater St. Helens…

Politics

President Donald Trump arrives to welcome the Super Bowl champion Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team to the South Lawn of the White House, Monday, April 28, 2025, in Washington.

Trump’s support is dropping nationwide and across demographics, polls show

President Donald Trump enjoyed the highest approval ratings of his political career when he entered office in January, with roughly half the country supportive of…

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People return to their tents along the Burnt Bridge Creek Trail with food and supplies received from the Bikers Outreach Organization on March 23. The city is steadily moving people from the camp into shelter or housing, preparing for an eventual closure.

‘Few places to go’: Those living in Burnt Bridge Creek encampment say it serves a purpose, but city plans to close it

Mary Hoxsic knows the encampment along Vancouver’s Burnt Bridge Creek Trail where she lives has a bad reputation. But outsiders don’t know the campers’ stories,…

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Health

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s choice to be Secretary of Health and Human Services, appears before the Senate Finance Committee for his confirmation hearing, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2025.

RFK Jr. wrong about share of autistic population with severe limitations

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. attracted notice — and in some quarters, outrage — for remarks about autism, a topic he’s…

Life

A visitor takes a selfie with a camel during a circus performance at Bastille square in Paris in 2016.

Washington becomes twelfth state to restrict circus animal use

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed a bill making Washington the twelfth state in the country to restrict the use of animals in traveling circuses,…

Nation / World

A protester is removed as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., speaks during a town-hall style meeting, Tuesday, April 15, 2025, in Acworth, Ga.

Republicans in the toughest swing districts become hard to find for people angry about Trump

Many days over the past two weeks, no one answered the phone at any of U.S. Rep. Scott Perry’s four offices.

Economic Forecast – March 2025

Economic Forecast – March 2025

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Opinion

April 30: Coal Power

Editorial Cartoons for Week of April 28, 2025

In Our View: Vancouver cultivates buzz for pollinators

Brown: Burkman’s done with civic life

Letter: Perez might alienate constituents

Letter: A way to fix state spending

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