October 26, 2021, 9:43am Clark County Politics Updated 23 hours ago
Major budget cuts in Battle Ground Public Schools could impact high school sports — and also put an end to the much-anticipated return of middle school sports — if voters reject the district’s levy for a second time in 2021. Read story
October 26, 2021, 8:35am Politics
WASHINGTON — The White House is zeroing in on a package of clean energy strategies for President Joe Biden’s big domestic policy bill that officials believe could reach similar greenhouse gas emission reduction goals as an initial proposal that was quashed by opposition from a centrist Democrat. Read story
October 26, 2021, 8:10am Business
WASHINGTON — Bearing down on hugely popular social media platforms and their impact on children, the leaders of a Senate panel have called executives from YouTube, TikTok and Snapchat to face questions on what their companies are doing to ensure young users’ safety. Read story
October 26, 2021, 6:05am Clark County News Updated 2 hours ago
With little more than two months left, the county is at long last making progress on efforts to redraw the council districts map. Read story
October 25, 2021, 8:41pm Nation & World
WASHINGTON — The Democrats’ idea for a new billionaires’ tax to help pay for President Joe Biden’s social services and climate change plan quickly ran into criticism as too cumbersome with some lawmakers preferring the original plan of simply raising the top tax rates on corporations and the wealthy. Read story
October 25, 2021, 5:15pm Latest News
SEATTLE — Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman is expected to be named to a key election-security position in the Biden administration, according to a report by CNN. Read story
October 25, 2021, 4:26pm Politics
WASHINGTON — U.S. officials say they believe Iran was behind the drone attack last week at the military outpost in southern Syria where American troops are based. Read story
October 25, 2021, 2:39pm Politics
BLACKSTONE, Va. — Civil War history casts a long shadow in Virginia, the birthplace of Confederate generals, scene of their surrender and now a crossroad of controversy over renaming military bases that honor rebel leaders. Read story