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Weather Eye: Prepare for cool and damp trick-or-treating tonight

Patrick Timm is a local weather specialist. His column appears Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays.

We are well into the fall rainy season and a rather chilly air mass will be with us for the next week or so. This means high temperatures between 50 and 55 degrees, which is below average for the season. Snow will fall in the Cascades, even down to the… Read story

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, center, points at a graph on a monitor Wednesday during an event celebrating clean energy development at the Cowlitz Indian Tribe Transportation Center in Longview.

State invests more than $8M in Cowlitz Indian Tribe clean energy projects. It pledges to continue efforts ‘for generations.’

October 30, 2024, 5:47pm Clark County News

The Washington State Department of Commerce director and Cowlitz Indian Tribe chairman signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday to continue state investments into Cowlitz clean-energy initiatives for the future. Read story

Crews unload a nacelle, the piece where the blades and turbine meet, from a ship at the Port of Vancouver in 2020. The port recently secured a $22.5 million federal grant to buy new electric cranes, which are used to move wind turbines, and make other “green” upgrades.

Vancouver port will use $22.5M grant to buy two electric mobile harbor cranes

October 30, 2024, 3:46pm Business

The Port of Vancouver landed a $22.5 million federal grant that will help reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Read story

Portland police released a surveillance photo of a suspect in arsons directed at Portland and Vancouver ballot drop boxes.

Suspect in Vancouver, Portland ballot box attacks ‘intends to continue … targeted attacks,’ say Portland police

October 30, 2024, 2:06pm Clark County News Free

Investigators have released more details on the suspect in the arson attacks on ballot boxes in Portland and Vancouver and believe he may have plans for more attacks, the Portland Police Bureau announced Wednesday at a press conference. Read story

Earlier this month, the property neighboring the Lacamas Heritage Trailhead was tilled and planted with clover. Some botanists worry it has wiped out most of Washington’s remaining Bradshaw’s lomatium plants, although the property owners disagree.

Camas field containing rare, native plant tilled; owner says species will come back, but botanists disagree

October 30, 2024, 12:37pm Clark County News

In just a few hours earlier this month, nearly the entire remaining population of Bradshaw’s lomatium, an extremely rare native perennial plant species also known as desert parsley, was wiped out after a 20-acre parcel of private property was tilled by the owners. At least that’s the claim made by… Read story

Rick Seekins, a homeowner at the Vista Del Rio mobile home park, walks outside his home, which cannot be moved if the park is sold for development. The city of Vancouver is considering a mobile home overlay zone that would prevent manufactured home parks from being sold and turned into commercial buildings or other forms of housing.

A zoning change in Vancouver could prevent mobile home parks from being leveled for development

October 30, 2024, 6:10am Business

Amid fears that their mobile-home park could be sold to developers, residents of Vista Del Rio are urging the Vancouver City Council to pass regulations protecting parks like theirs from being leveled to make way for something else. Read story

Clark County News

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