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Tamara Shoup, interim executive director for school supports, center left, and Christina Iremonger, chief digital officer, hug in celebration after hearing election results at the Vancouver Public Schools district offices on Tuesday night. Both the educational fund and technology levies were passing with wide margins after initial results were released.

Vancouver school levies sail to passage

Tamara Shoup, interim executive director for school supports, center left, and Christina Iremonger, chief digital officer, hug in celebration after hearing election results at the Vancouver Public Schools district offices on Tuesday night. Both the educational fund and technology levies were passing with wide margins after initial results were released.

February 12, 2019, 10:29pm Clark County News

Vancouver Public Schools officials breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday, as voters in the west Vancouver district overwhelmingly voted in favor of two school levies that will fund programs and technology in the district. Read story

La Center School District’s 2018 bond will pay for a new middle school and to convert the K-8 building into an elementary school. Tuesday night, the district’s replacement levy was narrowly ahead, which will help the district maintain current programs after a change in the state funding model for education limited how much districts can collect from local levies.

Hockinson levies fail; La Center’s leads in early count

La Center School District’s 2018 bond will pay for a new middle school and to convert the K-8 building into an elementary school. Tuesday night, the district’s replacement levy was narrowly ahead, which will help the district maintain current programs after a change in the state funding model for education limited how much districts can collect from local levies.

February 12, 2019, 9:51pm Clark County News

Hockinson School District residents voted down two school levies, while voters in La Center came out narrowly in support of a school levy. Read story

Construction at Ridgefield High School funded by the 2017 bond is seen in January. The district ran another bond, and after initial results came out Tuesday night, the bond is ahead but not passing. A bond needs a 60 percent supermajority to pass, and it sits at 57.3 percent as of Tuesday.

Ridgefield bond trailing in early results

Construction at Ridgefield High School funded by the 2017 bond is seen in January. The district ran another bond, and after initial results came out Tuesday night, the bond is ahead but not passing. A bond needs a 60 percent supermajority to pass, and it sits at 57.3 percent as of Tuesday.

February 12, 2019, 9:50pm Clark County News

Ridgefield School District’s $77 million bond is trailing after initial results came in for Tuesday night’s special election. Read story

Innovative Services NW receives $2,017 grant

February 12, 2019, 9:14pm Clark County News

The Vancouver nonprofit Innovative Services NW received a $2,017 grant from the Autism Speaks Norma and Malcolm Baker Recreation Grant fund to put toward training. Read story

Ridgefield Public Works employee Nick Johnson, left, and James Barhitte, caretaker at Abrams Park in Ridgefield, move an American flag that was blocking a rain gutter on a park building Tuesday.

‘Quite a bit of rainfall’: Waterways rise, roadways flood, drains clogvideo icon

Ridgefield Public Works employee Nick Johnson, left, and James Barhitte, caretaker at Abrams Park in Ridgefield, move an American flag that was blocking a rain gutter on a park building Tuesday.

February 12, 2019, 8:49pm Clark County News

Instead of snow, some Clark County residents saw flooding Tuesday as heavy rain caused waterways to rise and storm drains to clog. Read story

A voter drops off their ballot in the drop box on West 14th Street.

Mixed results in school levies, bond election

A voter drops off their ballot in the drop box on West 14th Street.

February 12, 2019, 8:32pm Clark County News

School levies two Vancouver school districts and La Center were passing in early results released in Tuesday’s special election, but a levies in Hockinson and a bond measure in Ridgefield were failing. Read story

Woman gets year in prison in $400,000 theft from employer

February 12, 2019, 7:25pm Clark County News

A 60-year-old woman who formerly managed Vancouver-based Grimm Enterprises was sentenced Tuesday in Clark County Superior Court to a year in prison for bilking the property business out of more than $400,000. Read story

Terry McDowell, center, walks Tuesday along the Salmon Creek Greenway Trail with her daughters Marisa, left, and Chloe, 16, in Vancouver.

Council approves new funding path for county trails

Terry McDowell, center, walks Tuesday along the Salmon Creek Greenway Trail with her daughters Marisa, left, and Chloe, 16, in Vancouver.

February 12, 2019, 7:19pm Clark County News

The Clark County Council on Tuesday passed an ordinance intended to boost funding for trails. Read story

A vial of the measles vaccine is displayed at the Kaiser Permanente Cascade Park office Monday morning, Feb. 4, 2019.

New Clark County measles case confirmed; one case ruled out

A vial of the measles vaccine is displayed at the Kaiser Permanente Cascade Park office Monday morning, Feb. 4, 2019.

February 12, 2019, 11:50am Clark County Health

Clark County Public Health has confirmed a new measles case but also ruled out an old case, thought to have been confirmed, after further testing, the agency announced Tuesday. The county's case count remains at 53; there are two suspected cases. Read story

(Columbian files)

Heavy rain prompts flood watch and advisory in Clark County

(Columbian files)

February 12, 2019, 7:05am Clark County News

The Vancouver metro area avoided snow Tuesday morning, but heavy rain prompted the National Weather Service to issue a flood watch and advisory for the area. Read story