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OLYMPIA — Amid a spike in coronavirus cases and hospitalizations, Washington state is expanding its COVID-19 vaccine mandate to include all public, charter and private school teachers and staff — plus those working at the state’s colleges and universities.
There is no weekly testing alternative, and those who are not fully vaccinated by Oct. 18 risk losing their jobs, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Wednesday. Full vaccination means two weeks after a final dose, meaning workers need the final dose of either Pfizer or Moderna, or the one-shot dose of Johnson & Johnson by Oct. 4.
Community Roots Collaborative had to overcome large obstacles as it worked to build a tiny homes community in Fruit Valley to alleviate homelessness, but the project is nearly complete.
The project — similar to the city of Vancouver’s plan to create formal, supported campsites for people experiencing homelessness — has been in the works for a while. The goal is to have the homes ready for tenants by the end of August and at maximum occupancy by October.
A prosecutor told a Clark County Superior Court jury Tuesday that David Bogdanov strangled 17-year-old Nikki Kuhnhausen with a phone cord after learning the teenager was transgender, dumped her body on Larch Mountain and then fled the country later that night.
In his opening statement, Senior Deputy Prosecutor Colin Hayes walked jurors through the night in June 2019 that Bogdanov and Kuhnhausen met in downtown Vancouver and the events surrounding her death.
A private auto body shop north of state Highway 500 and west of Andresen Road caught fire Monday night, along with a large area of brush and tall trees, producing flames up to 20 feet high, according to the Vancouver Fire Department.
Firefighters responded around 8:45 p.m. to 6213 N.E. 38th St., west of the Vancouver Auto Mall, just outside Vancouver city limits, to find exploding propane tanks and flames in the trees between the shop and the highway.
The Vancouver City Council gave final approval Monday to a development agreement for the Vancouver Innovation Center, a project which will revamp the 47-acre former Hewlett-Packard industrial complex in east Vancouver and redevelop the surrounding 132-acre campus into a mixed-use community.
Vancouver principal planner Bryan Snodgrass gave an overview of the project at Monday’s public hearing. Developer New Blueprint Partners and Rabina will initially focus on renovating the existing industrial buildings at the center of the site and building new ones, then adding new multi-family housing on the west side of the campus and single-family housing on the north side.
