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Biden and McCarthy reach a final deal to avoid US default and now must sell it to Congress

May 29, 2023, 8:32am Latest News

With days to spare before a potential first-ever government default, President Joe Biden and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy reached final agreement Sunday on a deal to raise the nation’s debt… Read story

Russia strikes Kyiv in daylight after hitting Ukraine’s capital with series of nighttime barrages

May 29, 2023, 8:28am Latest News

Explosions rattled Kyiv during daylight Monday as Russian ballistic missiles took aim at the Ukrainian capital, hours after a more common nighttime barrage of the city by drones and cruise… Read story

Vancouver motorcycle rider ejected, dies in crash on I-205

May 29, 2023, 7:41am Clark County News Updated 36 mins ago

A Vancouver man was as ejected from a motorcycle and killed in a crash on Interstate 205 late Saturday. Read story

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Vancouver police investigate suspicious death

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May 29, 2023, 7:23am Clark County News FreeUpdated 39 mins ago

Vancouver police are investigating a suspicious death in east Vancouver.  Read story

Meredith McMackin holds a portrait of her son, Julian Woodall, in Woodall's memorial garden at the McMackin household in Vancouver. Woodall died 16 years ago while serving in Iraq as a corporal with the U.S. Marine Corps.

Vancouver Gold Star mother: Son’s service was ‘ultimate test’

Meredith McMackin holds a portrait of her son, Julian Woodall, in Woodall's memorial garden at the McMackin household in Vancouver. Woodall died 16 years ago while serving in Iraq as a corporal with the U.S. Marine Corps.

May 29, 2023, 6:05am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

Meredith McMackin is familiar with the pangs of grief. As an art therapist and mental health counselor of more than five years, she spends her Monday afternoons co-leading a grief and loss support group in Vancouver. Read story

A law enforcement officer walks as people are evacuated from a shopping center where a shooting occurred Saturday, May 6, 2023, in Allen, Texas.

White supremacy a common thread between two mass shooters with ties to Allen, Texas

A law enforcement officer walks as people are evacuated from a shopping center where a shooting occurred Saturday, May 6, 2023, in Allen, Texas.

May 29, 2023, 6:02am Latest News

Mauricio Garcia, the 33-year-old gunman who killed eight people and injured seven when he opened fire with an AR-15 in a parking lot at an Allen mall, isn’t the only Texas mass shooter with ties to the Dallas suburb. Read story

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More known about boarding school for Native students in what was North Yakima, but specific information is still scarce

This Spike & Arnold map from 18898 shows St.

May 29, 2023, 6:02am Latest News

On a spring day in 1889, several Catholic nuns, priests and other residents of the railroad town of North Yakima watched as Indigenous children gathered near a new school building near St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. Read story

Candidates for Washington State governor, from left, Washington's Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Dr. Raul Garcia and Richland school board member Semi Bird.

With Inslee out, candidates are lining up for Washington governor

Candidates for Washington State governor, from left, Washington's Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz, Attorney General Bob Ferguson, Dr. Raul Garcia and Richland school board member Semi Bird.

May 29, 2023, 6:02am Election

With Washington Gov. Jay Inslee declining to run for a fourth term in 2024, state Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz have announced tentative bids to replace him. Other elected officials are lining up to declare their interest for the two statewide seats they would leave… Read story

Trevor Gjendem poses for a portrait at his home in Stanwood, Washington on May 16, 2023. Gjendem, a nurse who works at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, has been vocal about labor issues for nurses at the hospital.

New Washington law may not cure hospital staff shortages, nurses say

Trevor Gjendem poses for a portrait at his home in Stanwood, Washington on May 16, 2023. Gjendem, a nurse who works at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, has been vocal about labor issues for nurses at the hospital.

May 29, 2023, 6:00am Health

Nurses in the neurosurgery unit at Providence Regional Medical Center submitted more than 100 staffing complaints in the first three months of this year, said Trevor Gjendem, a registered nurse at the hospital in Everett. Read story

FILE - Homeless tents line the sidewalk on SW Clay St in Portland, Ore., on Dec. 9, 2020. Democratic lawmakers in Oregon have proposed a $200 million spending package to tackle two of their top issues--homelessness and housing--as the state struggles to build more homes and move a growing number of people off the streets.

State lawmakers eye forced treatment to address overlap in homelessness and mental illness

FILE - Homeless tents line the sidewalk on SW Clay St in Portland, Ore., on Dec. 9, 2020. Democratic lawmakers in Oregon have proposed a $200 million spending package to tackle two of their top issues--homelessness and housing--as the state struggles to build more homes and move a growing number of people off the streets.

May 28, 2023, 2:15pm Latest News

Many of the unhoused people in Portland, Oregon, live in tents pitched on sidewalks or in aging campers parked in small convoys behind grocery stores. Read story