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Tents line the side of the road along West 11th Street in downtown Vancouver in June. Council for the Homeless data shows the number of people experiencing homelessness in Clark County decreased for the first time in at least five years.

Clark County saw slight drop in homeless population in 2023, says Council for the Homeless

Tents line the side of the road along West 11th Street in downtown Vancouver in June. Council for the Homeless data shows the number of people experiencing homelessness in Clark County decreased for the first time in at least five years.

October 11, 2024, 4:22pm Clark County News

The number of homeless people in Clark County dropped for the first time since at least 2018, the year the Council for the Homeless first released its own data. But the number is still disconcertingly high, advocates say. Read story

Visitors tour the new Community Roots Collaborative O Street property, which opens next week to local families. Community leaders said the property symbolizes a new beginning for people exiting homelessness.

Vancouver tiny home community ready to welcome families struggling with housing and homelessness

Visitors tour the new Community Roots Collaborative O Street property, which opens next week to local families. Community leaders said the property symbolizes a new beginning for people exiting homelessness.

October 11, 2024, 1:38pm Clark County News

Community Roots Collaborative has begun welcoming families to its latest housing project, seven small cottages for people moving off the streets. Read story

Executive Director Lester Griffin talks to a class of teens March 27 at The Foundation in Vancouver. The Foundation, which supports people exiting the prison system, received $100,000 from the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington&rsquo;s Social Justice and Resiliency fund in August.

Community Foundation grants address disparities in Clark County communities hit worst by war on drugs

Executive Director Lester Griffin talks to a class of teens March 27 at The Foundation in Vancouver. The Foundation, which supports people exiting the prison system, received $100,000 from the Community Foundation for Southwest Washington&rsquo;s Social Justice and Resiliency fund in August.

October 11, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

The Community Foundation for Southwest Washington has awarded more than $450,000 to 11 organizations across Clark County that are working to address social, racial and economic disparities within communities of color. Read story

Fire crews conducting a prescribed burn Tuesday at Lacamas Prairie spread out into two lines, a burn line and a hold line, once a test fire is finished. A test fire is necessary to ensure temperature, humidity, wind and other conditions are met before the controlled burn can move forward.

Prescribed burn at Lacamas Prairie Natural Area part of larger plan to protect against wildfires

Fire crews conducting a prescribed burn Tuesday at Lacamas Prairie spread out into two lines, a burn line and a hold line, once a test fire is finished. A test fire is necessary to ensure temperature, humidity, wind and other conditions are met before the controlled burn can move forward.

October 9, 2024, 1:29pm Clark County News

The presence of fire crews, emergency vehicles and smoke drifting up from the Lacamas Prairie Natural Area early Tuesday afternoon may have alarmed some residents, but it was all part of a controlled burn by the state Department of Natural Resources. Read story

Kathleen Stevens takes a phone call from a woman fleeing domestic violence with nowhere to go in July.

‘There’s nowhere for her to go’: Number of homeless domestic violence survivors has doubled in Clark County

Kathleen Stevens takes a phone call from a woman fleeing domestic violence with nowhere to go in July.

October 9, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

Kathleen Stevens recently took a phone call from a woman in Vancouver who believed her abuser would kill her that night. She’s terrified for her life and Stevens, an 82-year-old Hazel Dell woman who uses her savings to help fleeing domestic violence victims, is her last hope. Read story

Ridgefield farmer Rob Baur checks to see if the bin filled with recently harvested hazelnuts is ready to ship out.

‘You have to beat the squirrels and the rain’: Ridgefield farm harvests its first commercial hazelnut crop

Ridgefield farmer Rob Baur checks to see if the bin filled with recently harvested hazelnuts is ready to ship out.

October 9, 2024, 6:05am Business

For Ridgefield farmer Rob Baur, harvesting his farm’s first commercial hazelnut crop this fall and shipping it off to buyers was a race against time and nature. Read story

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church can no longer host people for shelter this winter after a flood in April.

Flood damage means Vancouver church won’t be able to house the homeless this winter

Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church can no longer host people for shelter this winter after a flood in April.

October 8, 2024, 6:09am Churches & Religion

After a flood in April, Beautiful Savior Lutheran Church’s building in east Vancouver is unusable, according to its pastor. The church is looking for another organization to take its rotation as a winter shelter from mid-November through mid-March. Read story

Dental assistant Kate Hernandez, left, works with patient Gerardo Vazquez of Vancouver with Dr. Natalia Sakun at the Free Clinic of Southwest Washington&rsquo;s dental van on Thursday morning. The clinic will begin renovations on its building in spring 2025.

Free Clinic of Southwest Washington will get a $1.5 million upgrade in the spring

Dental assistant Kate Hernandez, left, works with patient Gerardo Vazquez of Vancouver with Dr. Natalia Sakun at the Free Clinic of Southwest Washington&rsquo;s dental van on Thursday morning. The clinic will begin renovations on its building in spring 2025.

October 7, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Health

The Free Clinic of Southwest Washington’s building will undergo a $1.5 million renovation in the spring. Read story

Lewis Record stands on his porch at his mobile home in Fruit Valley. Record is against adding more housing to Fruit Valley until the city does something to improve the neighborhood’s air quality.

Should Vancouver fix the air quality issues in Fruit Valley before adding more housing?

Lewis Record stands on his porch at his mobile home in Fruit Valley. Record is against adding more housing to Fruit Valley until the city does something to improve the neighborhood’s air quality.

October 5, 2024, 6:14am Business

Lewis Record, 80, remembers the whisper of swaying branches and crisp scent of the air as he picked prunes in Fruit Valley in the 1950s. Read story

Alex Dong rolls a wheelbarrow full of bark down the Trillium Trail during a volunteer event Aug. 14, 2021, at the Columbia Springs environmental center. The city of Vancouver may cut funding the to nonprofit as part of an effort to balance the budget.

Vancouver may cut funding for Columbia Springs, a $50,000 hit to the nonprofit

Alex Dong rolls a wheelbarrow full of bark down the Trillium Trail during a volunteer event Aug. 14, 2021, at the Columbia Springs environmental center. The city of Vancouver may cut funding the to nonprofit as part of an effort to balance the budget.

October 4, 2024, 3:23pm Clark County News

The city of Vancouver has proposed cutting funding for environmental education nonprofit Columbia Springs in December. Read story