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Maryam Azizpour reads "The Smart Cookie" to her daughters, 6-year-old Murwarid, top bunk, and 10-year-old Marwa, as they settle into bed one night in June 2022. One year earlier, the family was living an uncertain life in Kabul, Afghanistan, which was shortly to fall to the fundamentalist Taliban regime. Now, they have been granted asylum in the United States and made a new home in Hazel Dell.

From Kabul to Clark County: ‘Is that really me?’

May 14, 2023, 6:04am Clark County Life

Afghanistan’s National Day of the Mother is still one month away. Last year, at a June 14 ceremony, the Afghan Ministry of Information and Culture paid respect to the country’s mothers, according to Kabul-based TOLOnews. Read story

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

Weather Eye: Heat records fall as our unusual spring continues

May 14, 2023, 6:00am Clark County News

Those east winds arrived right on schedule, maybe a few hours sooner, on Friday, enough to give Vancouver a record high of 90 degrees. On Saturday, those winds were blowing even stronger, pushing our afternoon temperatures well into the 90s — enough to surpass the old record high of 91… Read story

Vancouver fire crews rescue man from burning house

May 13, 2023, 7:45pm Clark County News

A man was taken to an area hospital in critical condition Saturday morning after Vancouver firefighters rescued him from the second story of a burning house. Read story

Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive volunteers Claudia and Russ Roseberry, right, take a sign for their vehicle Saturday from organizer Don Young. The couple have donated food for the drive before, but this was their first year volunteering.

Volunteers happy to help Stamp Out Hunger in Clark County

May 13, 2023, 7:40pm Clark County News

Volunteers came from near and far Saturday to lend hands and wheels to collect donations for Vancouver’s 31st annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive. Read story

After a nearly five-year hiatus due to litigation, the Clark County Council is resuming plans to allow more development to utilize its short line railroad. Plans were delayed after the railroad's operator, the Portland-Vancouver Junction Railroad, and the county engaged in a legal dispute over the validity of their lease.

Clark County rail plan on track as council considers development in rural areas

May 13, 2023, 6:05am Clark County News

After a nearly five-year hiatus due to litigation, the Clark County Council is resuming plans to allow more development to utilize its short line railroad. Read story

From the Newsroom: Wise policy can save local media

The study group, which included the University of Oregon’s Damian Radcliffe, hosted five webinars with experts. All agree that the current system of local news reporting is broken. But it gives us a chance to reset the system for a digital world. We need better media policies, which would redress long-term imbalances and inequities that leave some stories under-reported. Frequently these stories involve members of minority groups, poor people and people who live in rural areas.

May 13, 2023, 6:02am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

If you follow stories about the media, or even read this column regularly, you’ve heard plenty about how the news industry has been in decline for well over a decade. Can adoption of local media policies arrest or at least reduce this slide? The authors of a new report from… Read story

Clark College hosting Career Fair May 17

May 13, 2023, 5:58am Business

Clark College is hosting its 2023 Career Fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday on campus in the Gaiser Student Center. The school anticipates more than 70 companies will be in attendance, actively recruiting and sharing details about what they’re looking for in each respective industry. Read story