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Here are the top stories on columbian.com this week:
The city of Vancouver has approved a multimillion-dollar plan to reconstruct the streetscape of Main Street between West Fifth and West 15th streets.
The Main Street Promise project intends to improve pedestrian and cyclist infrastructure in several ways, by installing overhead lighting, adding bike racks and replacing the street’s current diagonal parking with parallel parking.
A spokesperson for Evergreen Public Schools confirmed Tuesday afternoon that the teenaged suspect arrested with a firearm on school grounds Thursday was a student at Evergreen High School and that he had been in the school building before the shooting Thursday.
Parents and community members in Evergreen are criticizing the district’s communication of information on Thursday and in the days that followed a shooting in the McKenzie Stadium parking lot, which forced prolonged lockdowns at Evergreen High School and Cascade Middle School. Nobody was injured.
Grizzly bears once ranged over much of North America, from the Great Plains to the High Sierras, from Yellowstone to the desert Southwest. Today an estimated 60,000 grizzlies roam the wilds, most of them in Alaska and British Columbia.
But once upon a time they also lived in the North Cascades of Washington. A few still might. Sightings are extremely rare. So the U.S. government has considered whether to reintroduce grizzlies to this remote wilderness area. Just what is the history of grizzlies in Washington? And what happened to them?
Striking health care workers at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center crowded the sidewalks along Mill Plain Boulevard in front of the central Vancouver hospital Monday morning, on the picket line before dawn.
Hundreds of health care workers represented by the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals AFT Local 5017, AFL-CIO, lined the sidewalk from Northeast 92nd Avenue stretching for blocks under dim streetlights. Picketers wore matching red shirts, blew whistles and held signs that read “techs are the heart of PeaceHealth.”
Clark County’s Information Technology department is investigating suspicious activity detected Saturday on the county’s computer network.
According to a press release Sunday, the department is “actively looking into the situation and working on a solution.”
