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Employees report for work at Vancouver City Hall on Tuesday morning.

Vancouver’s large employers, including ZoomInfo, are happy with hybrid work models

Vancouver’s downtown was bustling before the pandemic ushered in an era of remote work. In the years since the pandemic has waned, office workers have yet to flood back.
Clark County Business
A proposed second elementary school would be built near the intersection of Northeast 119th Street and 172nd Avenue by Hockinson Meadows Community Park, if Hockinson voters approve a bond on Feb. 11.

Seven Clark County school districts ask voters to approve levies and bonds in February election

Voters in seven Clark County school districts will cast ballots Feb. 11 on levies and bonds.
Election
Save Vancouver Streets initiative member Justin Wood speaks Jan. 6 during a Vancouver City Council meeting at City Hall. The meeting was packed with community members for and against a recent initiative that would require any traffic lane removals go to a public vote.

Save Vancouver Streets files suit against city, council for declaring its initiative invalid

Save Vancouver Streets has taken the city of Vancouver to court for declaring its initiative to require voter approval to remove city traffic lanes legally invalid.
Politics

Clark County

Clark County Council members Glen Yung, from left, Michelle Belkot, Wil Fuentes, Matt Little and Sue Marshall are pictured at the Public Service Center on Tuesday morning, Jan. 7, 2025.

Clark County Council weighs giving $2 million to Vancouver’s planned homeless shelter

Clark County may yet help the city of Vancouver pay for a planned homeless shelter in the Van Mall neighborhood.

Business

The walk-behind trencher a 16-year-old boy was using to dig a channel for fence posts. He was injured so severely both of his legs were amputated.

Teen working for Rotschy Inc. lost legs in 2023 work accident; now company will oversee $44M Longview rail work

Port of Longview commissioners voted 2-1 Wednesday to award a $44 million rail expansion contract to Rotschy Inc. to the ire of an overflow crowd…

Northwest

Felida Elementary School special education teacher Deb Lobdell, left, helps second-grader Carsten Edwards, 8, and first-grader, Scott Traux, 6, while they solve puzzles and design backgrounds on Code.org during their special education class March 29 at Felida Elementary School.

In tight budget year, pressure builds to boost WA school funding

Lawmakers have begun another hard conversation on what it may cost the state to amply fund basic education in public schools as required by Washington’s…

Sports

Newly elected Baseball Hall of Fame inductee Ichiro Suzuki talks to reporters during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Ichiro Suzuki wants to have a drink with writer who left him off Hall of Fame ballot

Ichiro Suzuki wants to raise a glass with the voter who chose not to check off his name on the Hall of Fame ballot.

Politics

House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., puts his signature on the Laken Riley Act with members of the Georgia congressional delegation attending, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025.  (AP Photo/J.

What is the Laken Riley Act? A look at the first bill Trump will sign

President Donald Trump is poised to sign the first bill of his new administration, and it is named after a slain Georgia nursing student whose…

Editor's Choice

California burger joint Habit Burger & Grill is set to move into the old Burgerville near Vancouver Mall, as seen Wednesday morning.

Habit Burger & Grill coming soon to former Burgerville location near Vancouver Mall

Wondering what’s happening at the shuttered Burgerville restaurant near Vancouver Mall? Fear not, the storefront will not sit empty. Habit Burger & Grill is moving…

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Health

FILE - Nancy Rose, who contracted COVID-19 in 2021 and exhibits long-haul symptoms including brain fog and memory difficulties, pauses while organizing her desk space, Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2022, in Port Jefferson, N.Y. Rose, 67, said many of her symptoms waned after she got vaccinated, though she still has bouts of fatigue and memory loss. U.S. health officials estimate 3.3 million Americans have chronic fatigue syndrome — a bigger number than previous studies have suggested, and one likely boosted by patients with long COVID, according to results released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023.

Women at ‘significantly higher risk’ of developing long COVID, study finds. What to know

As the shock and fear of COVID-19 wanes, health officials are turning their attention to long COVID and the threat it poses to the U.S.…

Life

Sleater-Kinney’s Corin Tucker, front, sings, while Carrie Brownstein plays guitar at the Riviera Theatre in Chicago on Thursday, March 21, 2024.

Olympia’s music origins explored in collection of interviews with grunge artists

“Seattle is often credited as the birthplace of Grunge, but Olympia’s contributions to the Pacific Northwest music scene have received worldwide recognition.”

Nation / World

Rev. Mariann Budde leads the national prayer service attended by President Donald Trump at the Washington National Cathedral, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2025, in Washington.

Who is Mariann Budde, the Episcopal bishop who upset Trump during an inaugural prayer service?

The Right Rev. Mariann Budde made headlines this week after she angered President Donald Trump with her sermon during an inaugural prayer service.

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Editorial Cartoons for Week of Jan. 20, 2025

In Our View: Ichiro Suzuki was more than a baseball star

Leubsdorf: King Donald reigns supreme

Letter: Trump can’t escape history

Letter: Criticism of street plan misplaced

Should the state restrict students' use of smartphones in public schools?

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