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Vancouver City Council’s $2.1B budget includes new taxes, cuts to nearly every department

December 4, 2024, 5:59pm Clark County News Updated 4 hours ago

After six months of tense discussion over how to fill a $43 million deficit, the Vancouver City Council this week passed a $2.1 billion budget for the next two years. Read story

37-lot subdivision proposed for Hazel Dell but development down overall in Clark County

December 4, 2024, 3:39pm Business

A Vancouver-based real estate developer has proposed a 37-lot single-family housing development just south of Northeast 88th Street in Northeast Hazel Dell. Read story

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Clark Public Utilities commissioners passed their electric, generating and water systems budgets for 2025, sparing customers a rate increase after last year's 14.5 percent overall increase.

A year after increases, Clark Public Utilities won’t raise rates in 2025

Clark Public Utilities commissioners passed their electric, generating and water systems budgets for 2025, sparing customers a rate increase after last year's 14.5 percent overall increase.

December 4, 2024, 12:21pm Business Updated 6 hours ago

Clark Public Utilities won’t raise rates next year under a 2025 budget adopted by commissioners Tuesday morning. Read story

Braille proofreader Adrienne Libby checks over a novel Wednesday at the Ogden Resource Center.

Incarcerated women work with Washington School for the Blind in Vancouver to transcribe Braille

Braille proofreader Adrienne Libby checks over a novel Wednesday at the Ogden Resource Center.

December 4, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

For almost 30 years, incarcerated women in Washington have been part of a program that transcribes documents, pamphlets, business cards, textbooks, novels, music, signs and menus — even the Oregon Voter Guide — into Braille. Read story

LEADOPTION Chilly conditions on Tuesday morning left southeast Vancouver covered in frost.

With cold winter coming, Vancouver makes plans to open some city buildings as emergency shelters

LEADOPTION Chilly conditions on Tuesday morning left southeast Vancouver covered in frost.

December 4, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News

With Washington’s winter predicted to be colder and wetter than usual, conditions are aligning for another possible ice storm in Clark County, experts say. Read story

Buoy 46089 sideways aboard a ship.

NOAA weather buoy No. 46089, vital for Columbia River navigation, makes waves

Buoy 46089 sideways aboard a ship.

December 4, 2024, 6:10am Business

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration last month redeployed an important weather buoy about 70 miles into the Pacific Ocean from the mouth of the Columbia River. Read story

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez speaks to the crowd at an election night party at the Hilton Vancouver on Nov. 5.

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez condemns President Biden’s decision to pardon his son

Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez speaks to the crowd at an election night party at the Hilton Vancouver on Nov. 5.

December 3, 2024, 5:55pm Clark County News Updated 7 hours ago

Democratic U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has condemned President Joe Biden’s decision to grant a full and unconditional pardon for his son, Hunter Biden. Read story

Council for the Homeless issues severe weather alert in Clark County for tonight

December 3, 2024, 4:46pm Clark County News Updated 1 day ago

Council for the Homeless issued a severe weather alert tonight for the emergency shelter system in Clark County. Read story

Guadalupe V. Munoz, 44, appears in May in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and driving under the influence. He struck a fire truck that had responded to a prior crash and then struck two pedestrians who had stopped to help, killing one and injuring the other. He was sentenced Tuesday to about 12 years in prison.

Woodland man who killed woman when he crashed into first responders, good Samaritans on I-5 gets 12½ years

Guadalupe V. Munoz, 44, appears in May in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and driving under the influence. He struck a fire truck that had responded to a prior crash and then struck two pedestrians who had stopped to help, killing one and injuring the other. He was sentenced Tuesday to about 12 years in prison.

December 3, 2024, 3:50pm Clark County News Updated 9 hours ago

A Woodland man was sentenced Tuesday to 12½ years in prison for a May drunken-driving crash that killed one person and injured another who had stopped to help another driver on Interstate 5. Read story

Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council to host online open house on safety

December 3, 2024, 2:45pm Clark County News

The Southwest Washington Regional Transportation Council is hosting an online open house seeking feedback on transportation safety. Read story