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Vancouver police investigate a Tuesday afternoon shooting near the McDonald's at Fort Vancouver Way and Fourth Plain Boulevard.

Vancouver police arrest suspect in central Vancouver shooting that injured one

Vancouver police investigate a Tuesday afternoon shooting near the McDonald's at Fort Vancouver Way and Fourth Plain Boulevard.

March 4, 2025, 4:50pm Clark County News

Vancouver police arrested a 20-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy who they say exchanged gunfire Tuesday afternoon in central Vancouver, leaving the boy with a gunshot wound not considered life threatening. Read story

Camas students from Odyssey Middle School and Discovery High School gather inside the project-based learning high school’s commons area on Wednesday morning, Feb. 26 to protest a Camas School District cost-saving plan to bring Odyssey students into the Discovery building at the start of the 2025-26 school year.

Camas students protest plan to merge Odyssey Middle, Discovery High into one campus

Camas students from Odyssey Middle School and Discovery High School gather inside the project-based learning high school’s commons area on Wednesday morning, Feb. 26 to protest a Camas School District cost-saving plan to bring Odyssey students into the Discovery building at the start of the 2025-26 school year.

March 4, 2025, 12:46pm Clark County News

Dozens of students walked out of class last week to protest the Camas School District’s plan to combine Odyssey Middle School and Discovery High School into one campus at the start of the 2025-26 school year. Read story

Colony Mobile Home Park residents Kaylee McKinney, left, and her dad, Baer Dobson, look over community cooperative paperwork in the kitchen of their home on Thursday afternoon. Residents are racing against the clock to purchase their Salmon Creek park.

Colony Mobile Home Park residents try to beat the odds and buy their Salmon Creek park

Colony Mobile Home Park residents Kaylee McKinney, left, and her dad, Baer Dobson, look over community cooperative paperwork in the kitchen of their home on Thursday afternoon. Residents are racing against the clock to purchase their Salmon Creek park.

March 4, 2025, 6:10am Business

Courtney Hendrix and her husband spent years scraping pennies together to save enough to buy their mobile home. Now, the parents of three children — soon to be four — face an uncertain future with their mobile home park up for sale. Read story

La Center Superintendent Peter Rosenkranz (The Columbian files)

State finds La Center School District discriminates against students based on gender identity

La Center Superintendent Peter Rosenkranz (The Columbian files)

March 4, 2025, 6:05am Clark County News

A state investigation found the La Center School District discriminated against students and staff based on gender identity by prohibiting teachers from asking students which pronouns they prefer. Read story

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

Weather Eye: Mostly sunny skies expected for county this week

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

March 4, 2025, 6:03am Clark County News

As we ease into the early days of meteorological spring — subtle hints of nature awakening, the swelling of buds on trees, the first tentative blooms of wildflowers — appear across the landscape. The pansies and primroses, their petals soft and delicate, glowed with cheerful faces, a bright spot in… Read story

Vancouver firefighters extinguish a travel-trailer fire Monday afternoon in east Vancouver. One person was badly burned and taken to a Portland hospital for treatment.

One person injured after travel-trailer catches fire in east Vancouver

Vancouver firefighters extinguish a travel-trailer fire Monday afternoon in east Vancouver. One person was badly burned and taken to a Portland hospital for treatment.

March 3, 2025, 6:00pm Clark County News

One person was taken to a Portland hospital for burns suffered during a travel-trailer fire Monday afternoon in east Vancouver. Read story

Protesters carry signs while marching against federal layoffs within the National Park Service on Saturday at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

Crowd gathers at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site to protest firings

Protesters carry signs while marching against federal layoffs within the National Park Service on Saturday at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

March 3, 2025, 5:24pm Clark County News

More than 100 demonstrators gathered Saturday at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site to protest recent firings there by the second Trump administration as it cuts the federal workforce. Read story

Kindergarten enrollment open at Vancouver Public Schools

March 3, 2025, 4:59pm Clark County News

Vancouver Public Schools’ 2025-26 kindergarten enrollment is now open. Read story

Raw, solid steel slabs wait to be distributed to the Portland metro area at the Port of Vancouver in 2018. The second Trump administration strengthened the 25 percent steel tariffs and increased aluminum tariffs to 25 percent last month.

How will tariffs affect Clark County businesses? ‘We really don’t know,’ says banking exec

Raw, solid steel slabs wait to be distributed to the Portland metro area at the Port of Vancouver in 2018. The second Trump administration strengthened the 25 percent steel tariffs and increased aluminum tariffs to 25 percent last month.

March 3, 2025, 3:39pm Business

Clark County businesses are bracing for new and higher tariffs the second Trump administration is expected to institute this week. Read story

Work on N.W. 78th Street to cause closures, delays

March 3, 2025, 2:50pm Clark County News

Clark County Public Works will resurface Northwest 78th Street between Northwest Lakeshore Avenue and Northeast Hazel Dell Avenue beginning this month. Read story