May 11, 2021, 6:12pm Clark County News
A former program coordinator in the county’s now-defunct Department of Environmental Services testified Monday that employees were assured by board members and the county manager that rumblings of a department reorganization were “just talk.” Read story
May 10, 2021, 6:21pm Clark County News
Clark County’s former manager intentionally left Councilors David Madore and Tom Mielke out of the loop on an environmental services department reorganization, he said, because he knew they had a close political relationship with the director, Don Benton. Read story
May 8, 2021, 12:30pm Clark County News
The primary defendant in the April 2017 beating and fatal shooting of a man at a Hockinson property was sentenced Friday to about 70 years in prison. Read story
May 7, 2021, 6:10pm Clark County News
Don Benton, the former director of the county’s now-defunct Department of Environmental Services, had heard rumblings of a department reorganization or dissolution as early as 2014, he testified Friday. Read story
May 7, 2021, 10:20am Clark County News
The Clark County Prosecuting Attorney’s Office has declined to file criminal charges against a contract newspaper carrier who fatally shot a man last month at The Waterfront Vancouver. Read story
May 6, 2021, 6:51pm Clark County News
A former county employee who helped carry out the layoffs of Don Benton and two of his employees told a jury Thursday she was never concerned the trio was terminated for being whistleblowers. Read story
May 5, 2021, 7:05pm Clark County News
Don Benton and two of his employees were laid off from their county jobs less than two weeks after Benton filed a whistleblower complaint about his boss with the county’s Human Resources Department, his attorney said Wednesday. Read story
May 5, 2021, 6:07pm Clark County News
The brother of a man killed in a hit-and-run in September told the driver, as she awaited sentencing Wednesday, that she’s been given “the opportunity of a lifetime.” Read story
May 5, 2021, 6:05am Clark County News
There will be extra officers in Southwest Washington conducting DUI enforcement today for Cinco de Mayo. Read story
May 4, 2021, 5:20pm Clark County News
A Bonney Lake man who allegedly led Clark County sheriff’s deputies on a chase Monday night through Minnehaha, colliding with two patrol cars, appeared in court Tuesday. Read story
