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One of the charter amendments on the November ballot would raise the salary range for the Clark County sheriff, currently John Horch.

Charter amendments would raise Clark County sheriff’s salary, change redistricting, initiatives processes

Clark County voters will decide on three charter amendments in the Nov. 5 election.
Clark County Politics
Seven people were displaced in an apartment fire Sunday evening on east Fourth Plain Boulevard.

Vancouver apartment fire initially reported as electrical issues

Vancouver firefighters spent  41/2 hours combatting an apartment fire Sunday night in central Vancouver. The fire displaced seven people from the complex on East Fourth Plain Boulevard.
Clark County News
Firefighter-paramedic Connor Danielson hands car keys to mental health professional Janie Wadiak on Wednesday, while Danielson takes a call at Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue Station 21 in Ridgefield. The pair work as part of the Clark-Cowlitz Cares Team that can respond to community members experiencing crises.

First responders in Clark County have a new tool to fight opioid addiction after overdoses

First responders in Clark County can now administer a medication to treat opioid-use disorder through a statewide pilot program.
Health
Rebecca Kimmel is seen reflected in her artwork depicting twins at her home Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, in Seattle. Kimmel believes her adoption agency switched her identity with another girl, and that she may have a twin. Thousands of South Korean adoptees are looking to satisfy a raw, compelling urge that much of the world takes for granted: the search for identity.

A South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them — just not the ones she wanted

Rebecca Kimmel sat in a small room, stunned and speechless, staring at the baby photo she had just unearthed from her adoption file.
Northwest

Clark County

A truck prepares to leave the Zimmerly gravel pit near Washougal in 2018.

Washougal Pit owner tries to resume mining, again

A year after being denied, Ridgefield resident Judith Zimmerly is once again attempting to get permits to resume gravel mining on her property known as…

Business

IMAGE DISTRIBUTED FOR AMAZON - Holly Sullivan, Vice President of Worldwide Economic Development at Amazon, center, and Vikram Pathania, Principal Economist at Amazon, left, participate in a moderated conversation at Delivering the Future at the National Museum of African American Music on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2024 in Nashville.

Amazon exec says return-to-office opponents can find ‘other companies’

As Amazon’s five-day-a-week return-to-office policy approaches its enforcement date, a company executive is taking a hard line against those who don’t want to comply.

Northwest

This combination of undated photos released by the U.S. Navy shows Lt. Serena Wileman, left, a naval aviator, and Lt. Cmdr. Lyndsay Evans, a naval flight officer. (U.S.

Navy identifies 2 killed in fighter jet crash near Mount Rainier as aviators from California

The Navy identified on Monday the two crew members who died last week in a jet fighter crash near Mount Rainier as two 31-year-old aviators…

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Politics

Alexander Castillo-Nunez, a civic engagement coordinator at the Inter Tribal Council of Arizona, Inc., shows a voter information pamphlet at an Arizona Native Vote booth during an Indigenous Peoples&rsquo; Day event, Monday, Oct. 14, 2024, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Ross D.

How does abortion translate? Ballot measures are a challenge for interpreters

Reproductive rights measures are on the ballots in 10 states after heated debates over how to describe their impact on abortion — and that’s just…

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Former Battle Ground High School teacher Kevin Weeks was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in an Oregon prison for first-degree online sexual corruption of a child.

Former Battle Ground teacher sentenced on child sexual corruption charges in Oregon

A former Battle Ground High School teacher was sentenced Wednesday to 18 months in prison for trying to meet with a person he believed to…

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Health

Washington state health officials are investigating after four agricultural workers tested presumptively positive for bird flu, marking the first presumed human cases in the state, the Washington State Department of Health announced Sunday. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Four test positive in WA’s first human bird flu infections

Washington state health officials are investigating after four agricultural workers tested presumptively positive for bird flu, marking the first presumed human cases in the state,…

Life

Adam Driver, left, and Nathalie Emmanuel in a scene from &ldquo;Megalopolis.&rdquo; (Lionsgate/TNS)

Phillips: Everyone’s piling on ‘Megalopolis’ and ‘Joker: Folie à Deux.’ They’re not the flops I worry about

Amid a tragically divided populace, one thing holds us together as a nation right now: the near-unanimous spite regarding a couple of flops, “Megalopolis” from…

Nation / World

Supporters hold signs as they arrive before Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump at a campaign rally at Minges Coliseum, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024, in Greenville, N.C.

Trump makes more debunked claims about FEMA as he surveys storm damage in North Carolina

Surveying storm damage in North Carolina, former President Donald Trump on Monday blasted federal emergency responders whose work has been stymied by armed harassment and…

High School Sports &#8211; September 2024

High School Sports – September 2024

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Opinion

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Editorial Cartoons for Week of Oct. 14, 2024

In Out View: Cheers & Jeers: Positive sign; critical cough

Leubsdorf: Two distinct choices

Other Papers Say: We can lower health care costs

Cowen: Trump’s case for tariffs flawed

The new lanes on Highway 14 are open. What should be the next project?

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