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An Air Canada Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft departing for Calgary taxis to a runway at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia, on Tuesday.

Small percentage of PDX flights are on Boeing 737 MAX 8

An Air Canada Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft departing for Calgary taxis to a runway at Vancouver International Airport in Richmond, British Columbia, on Tuesday.

March 12, 2019, 8:37pm Clark County News

If you catch a flight to or from Portland, will you ride aboard the type of Boeing jet involved in two recent plane crashes? Probably not. Read story

Two Vancouver men charged over Portland brawls

March 12, 2019, 7:46pm Clark County News

The Multnomah County, Ore., district attorney on Tuesday released a sealed indictment charging two Vancouver men affiliated with far-right groups organizing in the Northwest with assault, following a year of street brawls with protestors. Read story

Terry Toland, an energy resource manager with Clark Public Utilities, leads a tour of the River Road Generation Plant. A bill in the Legislature exempts the plant from proposed green power requirements.

Renewable energy bill would exempt Clark Public Utilities

Terry Toland, an energy resource manager with Clark Public Utilities, leads a tour of the River Road Generation Plant. A bill in the Legislature exempts the plant from proposed green power requirements.

March 11, 2019, 6:02am Clark County News

A Senate bill that would require utilities to switch to 100 percent renewable energy sources by 2045 includes an exemption to the rule for Clark Public Utilities. Read story

Interstate 5 tunnel: To be or not to be?

March 10, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

As predictable as traffic jams heading onto the Interstate 5 Bridge, state legislators are back in Olympia talking about Columbia River crossing options. And like other unchanging, interminable cycles, so returns talk of a tunnel solution to the river crossing problem. Read story

Participants’ faces show triumph and disappointment during the 2018 Solar Car Challenge at Hudson’s Bay High School.

Students set to compete Saturday in Solar Car Challenge

Participants’ faces show triumph and disappointment during the 2018 Solar Car Challenge at Hudson’s Bay High School.

March 8, 2019, 6:05am Clark County News

Hundreds of local students will hit the track this weekend for the return of the Solar Car Challenge, hosted by Clark Public Utilities. Read story

An investigator photographs the scene of a police shooting in Hazel Dell on Thursday, March 7, 2019.

Fatal officer-involved shooting reported in Hazel Dell

An investigator photographs the scene of a police shooting in Hazel Dell on Thursday, March 7, 2019.

March 7, 2019, 4:00pm Clark County News

Two Vancouver police detectives shot and killed an armed man during a traffic stop Thursday afternoon in Hazel Dell. Read story

A travel-time sign gives traffic in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 just south of the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds an estimate for traffic down the road. Signs like these use roadway sensors and radar devices to measure the speed and density of passing traffic, and a computer program uses the information to estimate travel times between two points.

Clark Asks: How do highway reader boards calculate travel times?

A travel-time sign gives traffic in the southbound lanes of Interstate 5 just south of the Clark County Event Center at the Fairgrounds an estimate for traffic down the road. Signs like these use roadway sensors and radar devices to measure the speed and density of passing traffic, and a computer program uses the information to estimate travel times between two points.

March 5, 2019, 6:05am Clark County News

Battle Ground’s Jen Kootstra, now retired, doesn’t make the commute south on the interstate highways in the county as much as she did when she was still working as an engineer for HP. Read story

A cyclist bikes down Columbia Street toward East Mill Plain Boulevard in Vancouver. The city was planning to replace much of the parking on Columbia Street with sheltered bike lanes, but the the Vancouver City Council has chosen to re-examine options for balancing parking following an outcry from residents.

Vancouver seeks more feedback on bike-lane project

A cyclist bikes down Columbia Street toward East Mill Plain Boulevard in Vancouver. The city was planning to replace much of the parking on Columbia Street with sheltered bike lanes, but the the Vancouver City Council has chosen to re-examine options for balancing parking following an outcry from residents.

March 4, 2019, 9:35pm Clark County News

The Vancouver City Council wants more feedback from residents, community groups and stakeholders before making a call postponing to next year a plan to add protected bike lanes, at the sake of parking spots, along Columbia Street. Read story

Billy Wilson of Portland was briefly detained but not arrested after a rally held by Joey Gibson’s Patriot Prayer Group in Vancouver on Sept. 10, 2017. He was later charged with reckless driving and reckless endangerment, both gross misdemeanors.

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Billy Wilson of Portland was briefly detained but not arrested after a rally held by Joey Gibson’s Patriot Prayer Group in Vancouver on Sept. 10, 2017. He was later charged with reckless driving and reckless endangerment, both gross misdemeanors.

March 1, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

Supporters of a man accused of nearly hitting protesters with his pickup after a Patriot Prayer gathering in downtown Vancouver in summer 2017 plan to rally in his support Saturday afternoon. Read story

Crews work to remove a downed tree on northbound Interstate 5 Tuesday afternoon in Salmon Creek. Traffic backed up miles south for roughly 40 minutes until the tree was cleared.

Tree falls across I-5 in Salmon Creek, blocks traffic northbound

Crews work to remove a downed tree on northbound Interstate 5 Tuesday afternoon in Salmon Creek. Traffic backed up miles south for roughly 40 minutes until the tree was cleared.

February 26, 2019, 3:28pm Clark County News

A tree fell over Interstate 5 in Salmon Creek on Tuesday afternoon, blocking northbound traffic for about 40 minutes. Read story