January 8, 2025, 6:09am Clark County News
The Washington Department of Corrections rarely releases people directly into homelessness. But that hasn’t halted the prison-to-homelessness pipeline, especially in Clark County where housing costs are high and landlords have… Read story
December 31, 2024, 6:18am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
Vancouver has changed significantly over the past 100 years, and so has crime here. Read story
November 4, 2024, 1:33pm Clark County News
Clark County Jail staff erroneously released an inmate after he completed his local sentence when he should’ve instead been transported to Oregon to serve the remainder of a prison sentence there, county officials said Monday. Read story
October 25, 2024, 2:29pm Clark County Health
Clark County won’t help Vancouver pay for a 150-bed homelessness shelter after all. 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
October 18, 2024, 1:47pm Clark County News
The Clark County Council on Friday adopted a resolution warning that passage of Vancouver’s Proposition 4, which would raise property taxes to add 80 new police officers, will create more work for the rest of the criminal justice system without providing money to pay for it. Read story
September 26, 2024, 8:11am Clark County News
Residents of a central Vancouver neighborhood were told to shelter in place Wednesday night while law enforcement searched for a man that had a brief standoff with Clark County sheriff’s deputies inside the jail and then fled on a motorized bicycle. Read story
September 3, 2024, 6:05am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
When someone who is wanted for suspected crimes in Clark County is arrested elsewhere, it’s the job of a team at the Clark County Sheriff’s Office to bring them here to face charges. Read story
July 13, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News
Jacob Anderson isn’t sure when he lost hope. He had big dreams of being an artist and a therapist like the one who helped him through hard times in junior high. But somewhere along the way, the plan fell apart. Read story
June 27, 2024, 6:08am Clark County News
People are sometimes released from the Clark County Jail late at night or in the wee hours of the morning. Read story