May 8, 2025, 6:10am Clark County News
While Clark County’s chief public defender says he’s grateful the Legislature more than doubled funding for public defense services in its new budget, he still wishes the state would do… Read story
April 18, 2025, 4:36pm Clark County News
The scene during Friday afternoon’s second anniversary celebration for Clark County’s Community Court was far from a typical day at court. Participants, service providers and county officials shared laughs, tears… Read story
April 18, 2025, 6:10am Clark County News
Clark County should wait until the November general election to ask voters to fund hundreds of millions of dollars in local criminal justice staffing needs and a jail remodel, the county manager advised councilors on Wednesday. Read story
March 29, 2025, 6:14am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
When a Camas man violated a court order barring him from returning to his estranged wife’s house, police knew right away. Read story
December 2, 2024, 6:10am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
When a teenage girl sought a domestic violence protection order, she marked on the form she needed an American Sign Language interpreter. From then on, Luanne Conner appeared at each hearing to interpret the judge’s orders into ASL, ensuring the girl and the person she sought protection from understood. Read story
November 15, 2024, 1:14pm Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
Clark County courts have been grappling with the impacts of an outage of statewide courts systems that have led to delays in some case filings, among other issues. Read story
November 2, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
For Vancouver resident Trenton Berry, the punishment for a 2021 drunken driving crash means he can’t take his young daughter to the park. He can’t go see a movie whenever he wants. He can’t go out to eat at his favorite restaurant. Read story
October 24, 2024, 12:21pm Clark County News
Local criminal justice officials sounded the alarm Tuesday at a Clark County Council work session over what the passage of Vancouver’s Proposition 4, which would add 80 new police officers, could mean for what they say is already a strained system. Read story
September 25, 2024, 6:08am Clark County News
Clark County District Court officials say they are cutting back on filings of probation violations in order to address a shortage of available defense attorneys amid “unprecedented” misdemeanor and municipal case filings. Read story
July 29, 2024, 3:03pm Clark County News
Attorneys in Clark County have selected who they prefer to become the county’s newest Superior Court judge; their pick is currently a judge in District Court. Read story