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Vice President Kamala Harris speaks from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, July 22, 2024, during an event with NCAA college athletes. This is her first public appearance since President Joe Biden endorsed her to be the next presidential nominee of the Democratic Party.

Harris gets a chance to press reset on the 2024 race against Trump

July 23, 2024, 6:05am Latest News

For the past year, the presidential campaign seemed destined to be a monotonous slog featuring two candidates, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump, who voters didn’t really want. Read story

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

Weather Eye: Cooler, pleasant weather should last through week

July 23, 2024, 6:01am Clark County News

Are you enjoying the cooler weather? I know I am, and it should remain quite pleasant the remainder of the week into the weekend with highs 78-85 degrees around the county; cooler in rural areas. I don’t see 90-degree weather this week and maybe into the first few days of… Read story

Bureau of Land Management Director Tracy Stone-Manning visits sage brush restoration work near Burns, Oregon (U.S.

Feds say new investments in Oregon sage grouse habitat paying off, but conservationists disagree

July 23, 2024, 6:00am Latest News Free

Work to restore imperiled sage grouse habitat in southeast Oregon is moving faster than Tracy Stone-Manning had imagined a year into massive federal investments in landscape restoration. Read story

FILE - Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif. is seen on Capitol Hill, Jan. 10, 2017, in Washington. She's already broken barriers, and now Vice President Harris could soon become the first Black woman to head a major party's presidential ticket after President Joe Biden's ended his reelection bid. The 59-year-old Harris was endorsed by Biden on Sunday, July 21, after he stepped aside amid widespread concerns about the viability of his candidacy.

Harris has support of enough Democratic delegates to become party’s presidential nominee: AP survey

July 22, 2024, 6:50pm Latest News

Vice President Kamala Harris has secured the support of enough Democratic delegates to become her party’s nominee against Republican Donald Trump, according to an Associated Press survey taken in the aftermath of President Joe Biden’s decision to drop his bid for reelection. Read story

A truck prepares to leave the Zimmerly gravel pit near Washougal in 2018. The Clark County Council voted against a request by Zimmerly to convert the private road into a public road.

Clark County rejects plan to reclassify private road leading to gravel mine

July 22, 2024, 5:39pm Business

Residents living along Southeast 356th Avenue in Washougal arrived at the Clark County Council’s July 16 meeting to drive one point home: The county should not approve a mining operation’s request to convert their private road into a public road. Read story

‘There is no moving forward’: Clark County Council at impasse on railroad

Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad conductor Brad Johnston watches as a train moves down the tracks near St. Johns Road in May 2023. The Clark County Council recently decided not to move forward with hiring a consultant to complete regulations for the section of rail line set aside for industrial development. The question of where the county goes from here remains unanswered.

July 22, 2024, 4:02pm Clark County News Updated 2 days ago

The Clark County Council’s decision not to spend nearly $100,000 on a rail consultant, made during its July 10 meeting, caught many by surprise. Council members Gary Medvigy, Michele Belkot and Karen Bowerman previously supported hiring a consultant to complete development regulations related to the roughly 400 acres along Highway… Read story

Vatican’s Pius XII archives shed light on another contentious chapter: The Legion of Christ scandal

Troops of the Foreign Legion parade during the Bastille Day parade, Sunday, July 14, 2024 in Paris. The Olympic flame is lighting up the city’s grandiose Bastille Day military parade. It’s 12 days before the French capital hosts exceptionally ambitious and high-security Summer Games.

The recently opened archives of Pope Pius XII have shed new light on claims the World War II-era pope didn’t speak out about the Holocaust. But they’re also providing details about another contentious chapter in Vatican history: the scandal over the founder of the Legionaries of Christ. Read story