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Animal care technician Tiarie West of La Center greets Dasher, a 4-year-old American Pit Bull, while feeding the animals Jan. 4 at the Humane Society for Southwest Washington. Battle Ground residents who find lost dogs can take them to the Humane Society.

Battle Ground has changes for handling lost dogs

September 2, 2019, 4:38pm Clark County News

Battle Ground’s partnership with a local veterinarian’s office to house and look after lost dogs has ended, and city officials have a few options for city residents who come across a lost dog. Read story

Missing Hudson’s Bay student found by police

September 2, 2019, 8:45am Clark County News Free

Elishah Saheb has been located safe by Vancouver Police Department missing-persons detectives. No other information has been made available by police. Read story

Randy Williams waves a strike sign at a passing truck outside a grocery store on Fourth Plain Boulevard and 109th Avenue in December 1980. Williams was participating in a retail workers strike.

Vancouver has long history of organized labor

September 2, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

Vancouver’s reputation as a town for organized labor emerged as organically as Vancouver itself. Read story

Cardiologist Dr. Nathan Boyer follows up with patient Sharon Parks at Vancouver Clinic in 2016. Parks, 69, was the first patient in Clark County to undergo a new cardiac procedure called TAVR. The procedure was initially only available to the most high-risk patients, but has been expanded to all risk levels.

Heart surgeries advance locally, nationally

September 2, 2019, 6:00am Clark County Health

When Dr. Nathan Boyer and the rest of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center’s heart team completed Clark County’s first transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR procedure, in 2016, he didn’t quite know where the technology was headed, but it felt promising. Read story

Fifth-grade student Daniel Casanova finishes his lunch in the mostly empty cafeteria of Chinook Elementary School in March after his fellow students left for recess. A state audit released last week found that elementary schools overwhelmingly are not providing children with enough time to eat their meals.

State audit says school lunch schedules fall short

September 2, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

Forget what Washington school children are eating for a minute; what about whether they have time to eat it at all? Read story

Police searching for missing endangered adult

Police are searching for Zachary Childers, 35, who was last seen Sunday.

September 1, 2019, 8:38pm Clark County News Free

Vancouver police are requesting help in locating a missing endangered adult, Zachary Childers, 35, who has mental health issues that require medication every four hours. He has having an episode when he fled from his family near the Walmart at Northeast 104th Avenue and Northeast Mill Plain Boulevard on Sunday,… Read story

Vancouver woman missing after float incident on Willamette River

The Polk County, Ore., Sheriff's Office released this photo of a root ball snag in the Willamette River where a Vancouver woman went missing Saturday.

September 1, 2019, 10:08am Clark County News

A Vancouver woman is missing after falling into the Willamette River after her float tube snagged on a root ball on the Willamette River near Buena Vista Park south of Independence, Ore., on Saturday. Search operations are continuing today. Read story