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Vancouver Public Schools superintendent Jeff Snell, center, talks to Fort Vancouver High School students in February 2024. Snell is stepping down at the end of the year to become the executive director of the Washington Association of School Administrators.

After just four years, Superintendent Jeff Snell is leaving Vancouver Public Schools

Vancouver Public Schools’ superintendent will step down at the end of the school year after accepting a new position with a state education association.
Schools
Chief John Nohr speaks to the media about the new ambulance at the Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue Station in Ridgefield on Jan. 2.

Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue leaders worry about service cuts as cities, ports adopt taxing scheme that grabs new revenue

Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue leaders worry fire and emergency services will have to cut back as other jurisdictions adopt a taxing scheme that harnesses revenue from new development.
Clark County News
Registered nurse Diana Byrd holds a box containing the measles vaccine at the Kaiser Permanente Cascade Park office Feb. 4, 2019.

Measles vaccination rate among Clark County kindergartners drops to 89.9%; some schools even lower

The measles vaccination rate is dropping perilously low, and online misinformation is to blame, according to Clark County Public Health officials.
Clark County Health
Columbia River Mental Health Services' main office is at 6926 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd., Vancouver. The nonprofit has suspended operations.

Columbia River Mental Health Services suspends operations

Financial woes forced Columbia River Mental Health Services to suddenly suspend operations Monday. The move leaves thousands of people who rely on the Vancouver-based nonprofit for counseling and psychiatric treatment…
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Business

FILE - Shoppers head into an Albertson's grocery store Saturday, Nov. 23, 2024, in Cheyenne, Wyo.

Kroger blames Albertsons for merger’s demise in new court filings

Kroger is denying Albertsons’ claims that it didn’t do enough to ensure regulatory approval of the companies’ planned supermarket merger.

Northwest

The Washington State Capitol building is seen in Olympia, Washington on January 9, 2025.

Democrats in Washington Legislature pitch competing budget plans

Democrats in Washington’s House and Senate agree on one thing when it comes to the state’s budget shortfall: it’ll take hefty taxes on wealthy individuals…

Sports

Heritage's Kylie Thomas grips the ball as she turns to throw to first base during a 3A GSHL softball game against Prairie on Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at Heritage High School.

Prep highlights (March 25): Heritage softball beats Battle Ground on Kylie Thomas walk-off homer

Kylie Thomas blasted a three-run walk-off home run as Heritage beat Battle Ground 5-4 on Tuesday in a battle of teams that reached last year’s…

Politics

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, center, is flanked by FBI Director Kash Patel, left, and CIA Director John Ratcliffe, as the Senate Intelligence Committee holds its worldwide threats hearing, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J.

Trump downplays national security team texting military operation plan on Signal as a minor ‘glitch’

President Donald Trump on Tuesday downplayed the texting of sensitive plans for a military strike against Yemen's Houthis this month to a group chat that…

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An east Vancouver traffic circle is a site of frequent crashes. This house was hit in 2023, and the property owner’s garage was hit eight months later.

Residents say speeding cars keep crashing into their east Vancouver homes because of a roundabout

Neighbors blame a decade-old roundabout in east Vancouver for sending speeding cars smashing into their homes.

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Health

Around 7,000 to 8,600 Washington residents a month have called the 988 suicide hotline in the past year, according to a November report from the state Department of Health and the Health Care Authority.

What could federal mental health cuts mean for Washington’s 988 system?

When the 988 crisis hotline launched in 2022, it was a bid to give people across the country a single easy-to-remember phone number, like 911,…

Life

A green Central Fijian Banded Iguana is shown on Ovalau in Fiji. (Robert Fisher/U.S.

Iguanas likely floated to Fiji in record rafting trip

Researchers have long wondered how iguanas got to Fiji, a collection of remote islands in the South Pacific. Most modern-day iguanas live in the Americas…

Nation / World

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - FILE - The body of a child is placed on the floor in a hospital morgue following Israeli army airstrikes in Khan Younis, southern Gaza Strip, Tuesday, March 18, 2025.

As Israeli bombs fell, wounded children overwhelmed this Gaza hospital. Dozens died

When the first explosions in Gaza this week started around 1:30 a.m., a visiting British doctor went to the balcony of a hospital in Khan…

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Opinion

March 26: IRS Agent

Editorial Cartoons for Week of March 24, 2025

In Our View: Clark County Council creates costly problem

Crisp: Are U.S. workers really lazy?

Letter: City of Vancouver should not expand

Letter: President dishonors nation

The Cowlitz Tribe won't buy the Tri-Mountain Golf Course. What should happen next?

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