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A demolition project set to begin this spring at the Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Camas could literally change people’s views of the city.
The demolition work is part of the mill’s ongoing effort to remove buildings it no longer needs after downsizing in 2018. The project will remove 21 nonoperational buildings, many of which are visible from Northwest Sixth Avenue, a heavily trafficked road leading from state Highway 14 into downtown Camas.
A Vancouver man was killed in a crash Tuesday morning on state Highway 500 near Andresen Road.
Jerry L. Ekstrom, 67, was driving a 2005 Ford F-250 truck east in the left lane of the highway near the Andresen overpass when he lost control of the vehicle.
The city of Battle Ground is the latest Southwest Washington jurisdiction to ban unlawful camping on public property since a June U.S. Supreme Court ruling made it easier to do so.
“This is one part of a multifaceted approach to homelessness, and it is a small part,” Battle Ground Mayor Troy McCoy said.
President Donald Trump has nominated Yacolt Republican Joe Kent, who lost two bids to represent Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, to become director of the National Counterterrorism Center.
The center operates under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and serves as the primary hub for counterterrorism, where agencies including the FBI, CIA and Homeland Security share intelligence. It maintains a national repository of known and suspected terrorists.
Since the city of Vancouver opened a winter shelter next to an elementary school in mid-December, it’s been packed with an unexpectedly high proportion of families with young children, staff say.
“When you go in there, their conversations are so cute. You know, kid conversations,” said Ren Autrey, deputy director of Outsiders Inn, the nonprofit that operates the shelter. “They’re just having a good time getting prepared for bed.”
