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Vancouver Police Department, Julio Cesar Segura, Shown at 2022 court appearance, then 20, appears in January 2022 in Clark County Superior Court in connection with the death of off-duty Vancouver police Officer Donald Sahota. Jury selection in Segura&rsquo;s murder trial is set to begin today., Becca Robbins/The Columbian files (Becca Robbins/The Columbian files)

Jury selection to begin in Vancouver police Officer Daniel Sahota’s death

Jury selection is set to begin today in the murder trial for the robbery suspect accused in the 2022 death of off-duty Vancouver police Officer Donald Sahota.
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Courts & Crime
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Hannah Joy, Candidate for Legislature

Carson Republican Hannah Joy to seek 17th Legislative District House seat, Position 1

Carson Republican Hannah Joy announced last week she is again running to represent the 17th Legislative District, Position 1, in the state House of Representatives.
15 mins ago
Election
The Cowlitz Indian Tribe is working to take almost 60 acres east of Interstate 5 near La Center into its sovereign jurisdiction.

Cowlitz Indian Tribe expands reservation near La Center by about 60 acres

The Cowlitz Indian Tribe is expanding its 152-acre reservation near La Center by about 60 acres.
Clark County News
Rep. Sharon Wylie, D-Vancouver for 49th District.

Rep. Wylie seeking reelection to state House for 49th Legislative District

Rep. Sharon Wylie, D-Vancouver, announced today she is seeking reelection to Washington’s 49th Legislative District, a seat she’s held since 2011.
13 mins ago
Clark County News

Clark County

(Courtesy of the city of Vancouver)

City of Vancouver prepares for pavement projects across 20 neighborhoods

Roadwork will temporarily close some neighborhood streets over the summer.

Business

FILE - In this Friday, March 22, 2019, file photo, a marijuana plant is visible at Compassionate Care Foundation&rsquo;s medical marijuana dispensary in Egg Harbor Township, N.J.  The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, a historic shift to generations of American drug policy that could have wide ripple-effects across the country. The DEA&rsquo;s proposal still must be reviewed by the White House Office of Management and Budget.

DEA will move to reclassify marijuana in historic shift, AP sources say

 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration will move to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug, The Associated Press has learned, a historic shift to generations of American drug…

Northwest

A firefighter uses a drip torch to simulate blowing embers during a burn demonstration for the National Association of Insurance Commissioners Western Zone at the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho, Monday, April 29, 2924. The building on the left is designed to mimic a home built using fire-resistant materials with defensible space around the exterior, and the building on the right is designed to mimic a home with traditional landscaping and building materials. The building on the right quickly burned to the ground.

Growing wildfire risk leaves states grappling with how to keep property insurers from fleeing

Months after a catastrophic fire burned more than 2,200 homes in Hawaii, some property owners are getting more bad news — their property insurance won’t…

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Sports

Seattle Mariners starting pitcher Luis Castillo reacts while walking off the field after facing the against the Atlanta Braves through the seventh inning of a baseball game Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in Seattle.

Castillo throws 7 shutout innings, then Mariners bullpen hangs on to beat Braves

Luis Castillo threw seven shutout innings to continue Seattle’s run of starting pitching dominance and the Mariners’ bullpen held on for a 3-2 victory over…

Politics

FILE - A voter enters Tuscaloosa County Ward 5, Montgomery Fire Department, to vote during a primary election, March 5, 2024, in Northport, Ala. Voters in a new Alabama congressional district at the center of an ongoing legal and political dispute will return to the polls Tuesday, April 16, 2024, to select the nominees in a U.S. House contest that could help decide control of the narrowly divided chamber this November.

In unusual push, funders band together to get out grants around election work ‘early’

A small portion of the billions spent around the November election will go to nonprofits working to boost voter participation and access to voting around…

Editor's Choice

Reid Saaris, left, and Chris Reykdal, right, are campaigning to run the state Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

In WA education chief race, upstart candidate raises twice as much as incumbent

In the race to lead Washington’s public school system, Reid Saaris, a teacher and founder of an education nonprofit, has raised twice as much as…

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Health

Bottles of alcohol sit on shelves at a bar in Houston. Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods starting in the 2010s have thrown cold water on that.

New research finds no alcohol a path to better health

It’s wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o’clock somewhere.

Life

Chicken Shawarma.

Shawarma quick, easy, flavorful

Walking by a restaurant that serves shawarma and catching the aroma of it cooking on a rotisserie spit always makes me want to stop and…

Nation / World

Activists protest before a trial for a mass environmental injury case outside the federal courthouse on Monday, April 29, 2024, in Honolulu. The trial is set to begin Monday more than two years after a U.S. military fuel tank facility under ground poisoned thousands of people when it leaked jet fuel into Pearl Harbor&rsquo;s drinking water.

A Hawaii military family avoids tap water at home. They’re among those suing over 2021 jet fuel leak

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AP) — Richelle Dietz, a mother of two and wife of a U.S. Navy chief petty officer, often thinks about…

Economic Forecast &#8211; March 2024

Economic Forecast – March 2024

Special Newsroom Publication
 

Opinion

May 1, 2024:  Campus Protests

Editorial Cartoons for week of April 29

In Our View: Cooperate to prevent oil spills, disturbances

Flam: Century’s choices to haunt Earth for 100,000 years

Letter: Another auto mall is insane

Letter: Fight against climate is costly

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