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Mansaf at Petra House.

Three Mediterranean eateries in Vancouver offer tasty and healthy fare

The usual beginning-of-the-year self-improvement rituals have begun. Gym memberships have been bought, group meditation joined and terms such as “healthy sweet treats” are trending on search engines.
Dining Out
Former Wisconsin Rep. Sean Duffy, R-Wis., right, shakes hands with Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee ranking member Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., center, before his hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 15, 2025, to be Transportation Secretary. Committee Chair Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, is at left.

Trump transportation secretary nominee tells Sen. Cantwell I-5 Bridge replacement funding will come, sort of

President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Transportation on Wednesday told Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., that he “would anticipate honoring” billions of dollars the department committed for the…
Politics
Analog Devices manufactures analog semiconductors. Its Camas facility has been in operation for 25 years.

Semiconductor manufacturer with Camas location could get $105 million in federal CHIPS funding

A Camas semiconductor manufacturer could be among the next round of recipients for federal funding from the CHIPS for America program.
Business

Clark County

Clarence “Butch” Holt II, 59, who Battle Ground police arrested in connection with a Jan. 11 suspected hit-and-run.

Police arrest Woodland man suspected in Battle Ground hit-and-run that left a woman in critical condition

Battle Ground police arrested a Woodland man in connection with a Jan. 11 suspected hit-and-run that left a woman in critical condition.

Business

Boeing was forced to reassess its safety and quality management after a 737 MAX fuselage blew a hole on an Alaska Airlines flight a year ago. MAX production in Renton, seen here in June, slowed dramatically for all of 2024, ceding more of the narrowbody market to Airbus.

Airbus delivered more jets than Boeing last year

Year-end jet orders and deliveries figures released Tuesday by Boeing reveal how much Airbus dominated its crisis-ridden U.S. rival in 2024.

Northwest

During a December 2022 cold snap, bird lover Jack Burkman photographed dozens of hummingbirds swarming the heated, insulated feeders in his Vancouver yard. (The Columbian asked Burkman whether this astonishing photo isn’t a composite. He responded with a simultaneous video he took showing all those birds, and more, in action.

Are bird feeders safe amid bird flu surge in the Northwest?

The H5 avian influenza has proven highly contagious and deadly in birds. While the same effects haven’t yet been found in infected humans, health officials…

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Politics

President Joe Biden makes a statement on the latest developments in New Orleans from Camp David, Md., Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2025.

How Biden’s domestic policy record stacks up against public perception

President Joe Biden ends his term with a gulf between his policy record and his public reputation.

Editor's Choice

A new emergency room building, at right, sits next to the existing hospital June 28 at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center. The emergency department is experiencing unprecedented patient volumes due to the rise of respiratory illness cases in Clark County.

PeaceHealth urges community to consider other care options due to high patient volumes at emergency department

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center’s emergency department is experiencing unprecedented patient volumes due to the rise of respiratory illness cases in Clark County.

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Health

FILE - Containers of Zyn, a smokeless nicotine pouch, are displayed for sale among other nicotine and tobacco products at a newsstand on Feb. 23, 2024, in New York.

FDA OKs sales of Zyn nicotine pouches, citing health benefits for adult smokers

Federal health officials on Thursday backed the public health benefits of nicotine pouches, authorizing Philip Morris International’s Zyn to help adult smokers cut back or…

Life

Vancouver Mayor John P. Kiggins, in center of back seat, was in his first term when James J. Hill, with beard, visited town on Oct. 4, 1911. Hill was a keynote speaker at the county fairgrounds.

Clark County history: Railroad tycoon James J. Hill’s last visit

When railroad millionaire James J. Hill last visited Vancouver in October 1911, he’d already completed the Spokane, Portland & Seattle Railway, a joint venture of…

Nation / World

A general view of atmosphere during MoveOn’s national Banned Bookmobile tour launch at Sandmeyer’s Bookstore on July 13, 2023, in Chicago. MoveOnǃÙs Banned Bookmobile is on a multistate tour to sound alarms on the rising wave of GOP book bans across the country.

Librarians gain protections in some states as book bans soar

Karen Grant and fellow school librarians throughout New Jersey have heard an increasingly loud chorus of parents and conservative activists demanding that certain books —…

High School Sports – September 2024

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Editorial Cartoons for Week of Jan. 13, 2025

In Our View: Ferguson off to a pragmatic start as governor

Other Papers Say: Big challenge for new DCYF boss

McManus: Trump bungles grabs for Canada, Greenland

Westneat: Sunny Jay throws some shade

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

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