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‘It seems so outrageous’: C-Tran board shocked at $21.8M per year light rail budget staff unveils at meeting
C-Tran officials are considering asking voters to approve a sales tax to help cover the steep cost of extending light rail into Vancouver as part of a new Interstate 5 Bridge.
At a Tuesday meeting, C-Tran’s board of directors learned it will cost $21.8 million a year to operate and maintain a planned TriMet light rail extension, along with additional express buses, between Portland and Vancouver.
A 16-year-old nonverbal, disabled student with a rare disease is no longer receiving court-ordered educational services from the Hockinson School District.
The student had received Individualized Education Program services at his home as part of an administrative law judge’s ruling. His parents filed for a due process hearing in January 2023.
Officials on Tuesday identified a 45-year-old Vancouver man as the person fatally shot Dec. 4 by a Vancouver police officer outside of an east Vancouver Safeway.
Adam Grant Gunderson died from multiple gunshot wounds to the head, according to the Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office.
Vancouver’s plans to open a winter shelter Saturday next to an elementary school have ignited fear and anger among parents.
The shelter, which will host 40 to 45 people, will operate from 6:30 p.m. to 7 a.m., but parents are demanding 24/7 security. They also want those who seek shelter to undergo drug testing. If those measures aren’t possible, the parents argue the city should cancel the shelter’s opening.
New businesses are planned for the intersection of Southeast Mill Plain Boulevard and 136th Avenue in east Vancouver.
California fast-food chain In-N-Out Burger confirmed earlier this year it was pursuing a development on the northwest corner.
New Jersey-based Holman Automotive Group submitted plans to the city of Vancouver in February to create a Lexus dealership just north of Mill Plain Boulevard and west of the planned expansion of Southeast 139th Avenue.
And Safeway announced this fall that it plans to close its store at the southeast corner of the intersection in January. Las Vegas-based Swickard Auto Group plans to convert the building into a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter van dealership.
