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Luke Clark, left, looks on as his mother, Dawnell Tillery, orders them food at the restaurant in their Portland hotel after a long drive on April 22.

Vancouver’s Dawnell Tillery has given up everything to care for her autistic son Luke but she is running out of options

Dawnell Tillery never had an easy time when it came to her second born. At 2, Luke Clark was diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder, now considered a subset of autism…
Clark County News
There could be a lot of larger Chinook taken in the salt water off Washington this upcoming salmon season. This brute came to hand last year along Long Beach.

Ocean salmon season along Washington coast looks promising for June opening

It is still a month until the ocean salmon seasons open along the Washington coast in June, but managers have settled on their favored options for these fisheries.
Clark County Life
The Camas girls tennis team practices March 7 at Camas High School. The Camas School District is collaborating with U.S. Tennis Association to build a bubble over its outdoor tennis courts, which Camas athletics leaders say will help the Camas girls tennis team avoid rained-out practices and matches.

Camas hearings examiner OK’s school district’s plan for year-round tennis center at Camas High School

The Camas School District’s plan to create an enclosed, year-round community tennis center at Camas High School took a step forward last week after a Camas hearings examiner OK’d a…
Schools
Shipping containers are stacked at the Port of Seattle.

WA ports await sharp drop in cargo as Trump’s tariff battle with China drags on

Western Washington’s ports are bracing for a deep slump later this month, as the president’s standoff with China over tariffs is expected to stifle the flow of goods.
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Pooneh Gray, who garnered media attention for her efforts to reopen her mother’s 1989 murder case, is running for Position 1 on the Vancouver City Council.

‘I plan on being an advocate for victims’: Daughter of murder victim seeks Vancouver City Council seat

Pooneh Gray, a Vancouver woman who garnered media attention for her efforts to reopen her mother’s 1989 murder case, is running for Vancouver City Council.

Business

Sam Nguyen shows a gold bar at her shop in the St. Vincent Jewelry Center in the Jewelry District of Los Angeles on April 30. (Jae C.

Economic jitters and soaring gold prices create frenzy for jewelers

At the biggest jewelry center in the United States, Alberto Hernandez fired up his machine on a recent day and waited until it glowed bright…

Northwest

Starbucks workers and supporters protest in front of Capitol Hill’s Starbucks Reserve Roastery in Seattle on Dec. 20, 2024. The Starbucks Workers United union planned a five-day strike starting Friday.

Upstart unions at Seattle’s Amazon, Starbucks, REI enter the Trump era

As the organized labor movement marked May Day this week, fledgling unions at Seattle-area giants worried that long-stalled negotiations may be dead in the water…

Politics

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, left, speaks during a Cabinet meeting April 30 at the White House as President Donald Trump listens.

U.S. initiatives that promote democracy abroad withering

Growing up in the former Soviet Union, Pedro Spivakovsky-Gonzalez’s father and grandparents would listen to Voice of America with their ears pressed to the radio,…

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The Washington State Patrol weigh station exit in Ridgefield is closed Thursday after a Clark County sheriff's deputy stabbed a fatally drunk driving suspect at the scale house late Thursday night.

Clark County sheriff’s deputy fatally stabs a DUI suspect at WSP scale house in Ridgefield

A Clark County sheriff’s deputy fatally stabbed a suspected drunk driver who reportedly tried to take the deputy’s gun late Wednesday night at the Washington…

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Health

In this photo illustration, packages of Mifepristone tablets are displayed at a family planning clinic on April 13, 2023, in Rockville, Maryland. A Massachusetts appeals court temporarily blocked a Texas-based federal judgeǃÙs ruling that suspended the FDAǃÙs approval of the abortion drug Mifepristone, which is part of a two-drug regimen to induce an abortion in the first trimester of pregnancy in combination with the drug Misoprostol.

Despite historic indictment, doctors will keep mailing abortion pills across state lines

When the news broke on Jan. 31 that a New York physician had been indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it…

Life

Two female musk oxen stand with their newborn calves Saturday at the Musk Ox Farm in Palmer, Alaska, about an hour’s drive north of Anchorage.

Alaskans mark Mother’s Day by mingling with musk oxen

It is one of Alaska’s favorite Mother’s Day traditions: getting up close and personal with animals that have survived the ice age.

Nation / World

Pope Leo XIV appears at the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica for his first Sunday blessing after his election, in St.

Speaking before 100,000, Leo calls for peace in Ukraine, Gaza

Pope Leo XIV called for a genuine and just peace in Ukraine and an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, in his first Sunday noon blessing as…

Economic Forecast – March 2025

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Local View: Questions to address Battle Ground schools’ levy failures

Harrop: Dems should learn from Canada

Brown: Foreign trade may pay better

Other Media Say: Good time for real federal reform

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