May 8, 2025, 2:04pm Business
President Donald Trump agreed on Thursday to cut tariffs on U.K. autos, steel and aluminum in a planned trade deal but played down the possibility of other nations getting similarly favorable terms on his import taxes, which are roiling the global economy. Read story
May 8, 2025, 1:51pm Latest News
The last fire to burn this forest was started by drip torches. Fingers of flame ignited the underbrush last fall, clearing fuels that could supercharge a wildfire. Read story
May 8, 2025, 1:50pm Latest News
As the Social Security Administration undergoes massive changes and staffing cuts ushered in by the Trump administration, an increasing share of older Americans — particularly Democrats — aren’t confident the benefit will be available to them, a poll shows. Read story
May 8, 2025, 1:37pm Clark County News
A Clark County sheriff’s deputy fatally stabbed a suspected drunk driver who reportedly tried to take the deputy’s gun late Wednesday night at the Washington State Patrol scale house in Ridgefield, according to a statement from the sheriff’s office. Read story
May 8, 2025, 1:25pm Churches & Religion
Robert Prevost, the Chicago-born missionary who spent his career ministering in Peru and took over the Vatican’s powerful office of bishops, was elected the first pope from the United States in the history of the Catholic Church on Thursday. Read story
May 8, 2025, 1:15pm Latest News
Even if the end of World War II in Europe spawned one of the most joyous days the continent ever lived, Thursday’s 80th anniversary of V-E Day is haunted as much by the specter of current-day conflict as it celebrates the defeat of ultimate evil. Read story
May 8, 2025, 1:14pm Business
U.S. stocks rose Thursday after the United States and United Kingdom announced a deal on trade that would lower some tariffs between the two countries, the first of what Wall Street hopes will be enough agreements to keep a recession from hitting the economy. Read story
May 8, 2025, 12:03pm Clark County News
The Clark County Medical Examiner’s Office identified the victim of a May 2 apartment fire in central Vancouver as Megan Peterkin, 38. Read story
May 8, 2025, 10:28am Clark County News
In an unusual move, a judge set bail at $10 million for a Vancouver man accused of pointing a gun at a teenage girl and telling her to get in his vehicle in north Salmon Creek. Read story
May 8, 2025, 9:54am Latest News
A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked the Trump administration from imposing new conditions on hundreds of millions of dollars worth of mass transit grants for the Seattle area or homelessness services grants for Boston, New York, San Francisco and other local governments. Read story