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Police respond to report of armed robbery in Mountain View

March 19, 2019, 9:06pm Clark County News

Police are responding to a report of an armed robbery at a Mountain View neighborhood convenience store. Read story

Clark Public Utilities is giving electricity customers a credit on their April bill.

Clark Public Utility customers to get credit on April bill

Clark Public Utilities is giving electricity customers a credit on their April bill.

March 19, 2019, 7:35pm Clark County Business

Clark Public Utilities customers will see a credit on their April bill after the utility board approved a $10 million credit from 2018 surplus funds. Read story

U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, center, speaks with parents and child care providers during an open forum discussion at YWCA Clark County in Vancouver on Tuesday morning. The congresswoman recently co-sponsored a bill that would ease “child care deserts” where young children outnumber availability in child care programs.

Herrera Beutler promotes bill to boost child care programs

U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, center, speaks with parents and child care providers during an open forum discussion at YWCA Clark County in Vancouver on Tuesday morning. The congresswoman recently co-sponsored a bill that would ease “child care deserts” where young children outnumber availability in child care programs.

March 19, 2019, 6:46pm Clark County News

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, visited YWCA Clark County Tuesday morning as part of her push for a bill that would boost federal funding for child care facilities in underserved areas. Read story

Lisa Marx of Northwest Carpenters Institute of Washington, left, looks on as a Deric Goodwin, 18, of Camas High School learns how to erect scaffolding during the Youth Employment Summit in Ridgefield. Workforce Southwest Washington gathered representatives from 60 businesses to talk with around 600 high school age youth from Clark and Cowlitz counties during the event.

Youth job fair at Clark County Event Center takes hands-on approach

Lisa Marx of Northwest Carpenters Institute of Washington, left, looks on as a Deric Goodwin, 18, of Camas High School learns how to erect scaffolding during the Youth Employment Summit in Ridgefield. Workforce Southwest Washington gathered representatives from 60 businesses to talk with around 600 high school age youth from Clark and Cowlitz counties during the event.

March 19, 2019, 4:54pm Clark County Business

Clark County’s construction and manufacturing sectors are facing an increasingly common problem: too many of their skilled workers are retiring out of the trades, and there aren’t enough incoming workers to fill the industries’ ranks. Read story

Colleen Hunt and Russell Courtier (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

Man found guilty of killing black teen from Vancouver

Colleen Hunt and Russell Courtier (Multnomah County Sheriff's Office)

March 19, 2019, 4:41pm Clark County News

A jury on Tuesday convicted an Oregon man wearing a hat with white supremacist symbols of murder, a hate crime and hit-and-run in the death of a black teenager from Vancouver, who was run down in suburban Portland after an altercation in a convenience store parking lot. Read story

Weather Eye: Predicted rainfall now expected to arrive later, be lighter

March 19, 2019, 6:02am Clark County News

OK, let’s review some rainfall from your friends and neighbors for February. Read story

Informal meeting set with Port of Vancouver commissioners

March 19, 2019, 6:02am Business

Community members are invited to join Port of Vancouver commissioners for an informal get-together, with coffee and refreshments, Monday evening. Read story

Christina Brown of Vancouver fills a box with groceries while checking out at the Vancouver Grocery Outlet. The store eliminated single-use plastic bags on March 1 and now offers boxes for customers who did not bring reusable bags. “I’m pretty glad,” Brown said.

Clark County grocers prep for plastic bag ban

Christina Brown of Vancouver fills a box with groceries while checking out at the Vancouver Grocery Outlet. The store eliminated single-use plastic bags on March 1 and now offers boxes for customers who did not bring reusable bags. “I’m pretty glad,” Brown said.

March 19, 2019, 6:01am Business

Gary McLachlan patiently waited for his groceries to be loaded into a reusable bag at the Vancouver Grocery Outlet at 5800 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd. Read story

Physical therapist Chie Tadaki works on alignment with Addison Holler of Woodland, 14, during her appointment at Good Health Physical Therapy in Portland. Addison’s sweatshirt reads, “Fragile — Ehlers-Danlos — handle with care.” Addison has Ehlers-Danlos, a disease that weakens the connective tissue in her body, and makes her joints frequently dislocate.

Constant pain has given Addison Holler a different point of view from her peers

Physical therapist Chie Tadaki works on alignment with Addison Holler of Woodland, 14, during her appointment at Good Health Physical Therapy in Portland. Addison’s sweatshirt reads, “Fragile — Ehlers-Danlos — handle with care.” Addison has Ehlers-Danlos, a disease that weakens the connective tissue in her body, and makes her joints frequently dislocate.

March 19, 2019, 6:01am Clark County Health

Addison Holler’s morning routine is a little different. Read story

A locomotive with Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad moves toward the intersection of Northeasr St. Johns Road and 78th Street in January 2018.

County, Chelatchie Prairie Railroad operator file lawsuits

A locomotive with Portland Vancouver Junction Railroad moves toward the intersection of Northeasr St. Johns Road and 78th Street in January 2018.

March 18, 2019, 9:11pm Clark County News

A monthslong and increasingly bitter disagreement between Clark County and the operator of the county-owned Chelatchie Prairie Railroad has now spilled into court, with both parties filing lawsuits. Read story