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The Vancouver City Council meets Jan. 6. On Monday, after years of review and punting the issue, councilors voted to draft a plan for electing their positions by district.

Will Vancouver voters decide to elect city councilors by district?

Vancouver voters will likely choose whether they want to split into four districts this November, a conflicted city council decided Monday.
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Chinook salmon, steelhead and other fish are visible through a window in August at Bonneville Dam.

Columbia River salmon restoration hit hard by $1.5B cut to Army Corps of Engineers

The Trump administration has cut tens of millions of dollars from a key Columbia Basin salmon-restoration program run by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, a move experts say puts…
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Tents two deep line West 12th Street in downtown Vancouver on Monday morning.

Those living in west Vancouver’s decade-old ‘Share camp’ say they have nowhere else to go

Eleven-year-old Raina Troupe is used to winding through tents to get to her school bus stop along Jefferson Street in downtown Vancouver. Her family’s little yellow house is occasionally surrounded…
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Scouts gather together to help with the raising of the American flag during the beginning of the annual Memorial Day service at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site on May 27, 2024.

Five ceremonies in Clark County will mark Memorial Day

Four Memorial Day ceremonies on Monday in Clark County will honor members of all branches of the military who have given their lives in service to our country.
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Former Vancouver man to serve 11 years for child sex trafficking

A former Vancouver man was sentenced Monday to 11 years in federal prison in a child sex trafficking case.

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Construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington began in 1933 and was completed in 1942. It is the largest hydropower producer in the U.S. and also part of the federal Columbia River Power System.

Fears over Columbia Basin dams, hydroelectricity grow as agencies lose hundreds of employees

Grand Coulee Dam is among the most powerful energy-generating dams on earth. It’s the bedrock of the federal Columbia River Power System — a network…

Northwest

House Bill 2015 embeds a $100 million grant program in a broad policy bill designed to let local and tribal governments decide how best to use those dollars – even if that means not hiring a single new cop.

New Washington law directs $100M in grants toward hiring police, improving public safety

On his first day, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson angered many Democratic lawmakers by demanding the Legislature put $100 million in the next state budget to…

Sports

Portland Trail Blazers' Donovan Clingan, right, goes up for a dunk against Philadelphia 76ers' Guerschon Yabusele during the first half of an NBA basketball game Monday, March 3, 2025, in Philadelphia.

Blazers’ Donovan Clingan gets second-team All-Rookie honors

Portland Trail Blazers center Donovan Clingan was named to the NBA’s All-Rookie Second Team on Tuesday.

Politics

FILE - The Capitol is seen in Washington, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/J.

Democrats say Trump’s tax plan largely benefits the wealthy. Is that correct?

Democrats blasted Republicans for tilting most of President Donald Trump’s proposed tax cuts to the wealthy.

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Crews work on the Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River in 2019.

Tolling delay on I-5 bridge could mean higher rates for Washington and Oregon drivers.

Tolling on the Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River will start a year later than planned – but drivers traveling between Washington and Oregon…

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FILE - The U.S. Food and Drug Administration campus in Silver Spring, Md., is photographed on Oct. 14, 2015.

New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots

 The Trump administration said Tuesday it will limit approval for seasonal COVID-19 shots to seniors and others at high risk pending more data on everyone else — raising…

Life

A fossilized whirl in a lava lake that was active during the April 2011 eruption of the Axial Seamount.

Underwater Pacific volcano expected to erupt. What would that mean for WA?

If you’ve never heard of the Axial Seamount, you’d be forgiven. But the underwater volcano has made national news recently after research suggested it is…

Nation / World

Visitors at the Nampo agricultural fair, one of the largest in the southern hemisphere, ride past the wall of remembrance, a tribute to farmers killed since 1961, near Bothaville, South Africa, May 15, 2025.

Trump alleges ‘genocide’ in South Africa. At an agricultural fair, even Afrikaner farmers scoff

Days before South Africa’s president meets with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House this week, Afrikaner farmers at the center of an extraordinary…

Economic Forecast – March 2025

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In Our View: State’s climate efforts should have oversight

Edwards: GOP tax bill is a very bad plan

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