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Cauliflower bites are vegan at 3 Howls Remedy House in Vancouver.

It’s a lot easier to find vegan food in Vancouver; here are four eateries with plant-based options

Finding vegan food in Vancouver used to be exhausting. You’d have to call a restaurant in advance or ask for some creative menu swaps when ordering.
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 Vancouver police and the Homeless Assistance Resource Team are partnering in encampment cleanups. The partnership will help police officers feel confident in responding to homelessness and help HART in connecting campers with resources.

Vancouver police spending more time on outreach in homeless camps

Vancouver police officers are spending more time in homeless encampments under a new partnership between the department and the city’s Homeless Assistance and Resource Team.
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Washougal’s Recluse Brew Works makes list of 22 best new breweries in U.S.

At Recluse Brew Works’ December one-year anniversary party,Ezra Johnson-Greenough, founder of the Oregon Beer Awards, told Recluse owner August “Gus” Everson that the Washougal brewery might be receiving some special…
Life
A corrections deputy grabs O’Neal Payne, who was detained at the Clark County Jail, during a 2021 incident that’s now the subject of a federal civil rights lawsuit. Payne is suing the county and corrections deputies over the incident in which deputies dragged him across the floor of his cell by a tether.

Black man files civil rights lawsuit over 2021 use-of-force incident at Clark County Jailvideo icon

A Black man formerly held at the Clark County Jail has filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in connection with a 2021 incident in which deputies pulled him across his…
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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

Customers enter a JCPenney store at The Shops at Tanforan on Sept. 1, 2023, in San Bruno, California.

JCPenney is trying to reinvent itself again. Will it work this time?

JCPenney has weathered a bankruptcy, store closings and a CEO straight out of Silicon Valley — all followed by continual revenue declines. Now, the storied…

Northwest

Reps. Michael Baumgartner, R-Spokane, and Emily Randall, D-Bremerton, hold “The Chick,” a painting that has been passed on since 1972, at the U.S. Capitol on Thursday. (Courtesy of the office of Rep.

‘The Chick’ changes hands: Freshman Reps. Michael Baumgartner and Emily Randall inherit famously bad painting as part of Congressional tradition

The newest members of Congress from Washington were officially welcomed to the state’s delegation on Thursday with the ceremonial transfer of “The Chick,” a famously…

Politics

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Mich., sits inside a 2025 Buick Envision Sport Touring AWD vehicle at the Detroit Auto Show, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025, in Detroit.

For Mich. Rep. Haley Stevens, the road to the House majority runs through the ‘New Dems’

Haley Stevens was among the many women galvanized to run for Congress after Donald Trump’s election in 2016.

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

Jen Fisher’s son Raleigh lives with a congenital heart condition, which has left him with a weakened immune system. Raleigh has received all the recommended vaccines for a child his age, but his mother still worries about potential exposures given faltering vaccination rates in Tennessee.

Childhood vaccination rates, a rare health bright spot in struggling states, are slipping

Jen Fisher can do only so much to keep her son safe from the types of infections that children can encounter at school. The rest,…

Life

The steam ferry City of Vancouver crosses the icy Columbia River on a wintry day in this undated photograph, probably taken circa 1900.

Clark County History: First ferries of Vancouver

Most rivers in the Oregon Country had ferry crossings by the mid-1850s. That includes the Columbia River near Vancouver.

Nation / World

Samir al-Baghdadi, 46, works on his family house which was damaged during the civil war in the Qaboun neighborhood of Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025.

Syria’s economic pains far from over despite Assad’s ouster

Samir al-Baghdad grabbed his pickax and walked up a wobbly set of stairs made of cinderblocks and rubble.

High School Sports – September 2024

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Editorial Cartoons for Week of Jan. 20, 2025

In Our View: Public education should remain a top priority

Abcarian: Trump’s 2nd inauguration outdid cruelty of first

Other Papers Say: Restoring fiscal control can’t wait

Jarvis: Leaving WHO mistake for U.S.

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

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