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Man accused of rape says there was no sex

September 13, 2017, 7:37pm Clark County News

A Vancouver sex offender on trial for allegedly raping a woman testified Wednesday that they never had sex because he was unable to become aroused. Read story

Vancouver man gets 7 years in drugs, arms case

September 13, 2017, 7:33pm Clark County News

A U.S. District Court judge sentenced a Vancouver resident to almost seven years in prison this week for drug trafficking and firearms possession. Read story

A mangled trailer full of foam blocks bound for the Felida docks sits beside the railroad crossing at Northwest 122nd Avenue after it was caught on the crossing and hit by an oncoming train. No one was hurt.

Passenger train hits trailer full of foam blocks bound for Felida docks; no one hurt

A mangled trailer full of foam blocks bound for the Felida docks sits beside the railroad crossing at Northwest 122nd Avenue after it was caught on the crossing and hit by an oncoming train. No one was hurt.

September 13, 2017, 3:40pm Clark County News

An Amtrak train carrying 164 people plowed through a trailer carrying foam blocks bound for the docks at Felida Moorage on Wednesday afternoon. No injuries were reported. Read story

A helicopter crew prepares to make water drops on the Archer Mountain Fire in this image released Saturday by the Washington Department of Natural Resources.

Archer Mountain fire 100 percent contained

A helicopter crew prepares to make water drops on the Archer Mountain Fire in this image released Saturday by the Washington Department of Natural Resources.

September 13, 2017, 8:47am Clark County News

Although the Archer Mountain Fire was declared fully contained Wednesday morning, and all evacuations lifted, firefighters will continue working in the area for several days. Read story

Elaine Dorset, National Park Service archaeologist, with two replica sabers that will help re-enactors represent an Army dragoon unit at Fort Vancouver in the 1850s. The saber with the gold-colored bell guard will be carried by re-enactors. The one with the silver-colored bell guard and rubber tip is a training saber.

Fort offers saber classes in nod to 1850s Army dragoons

Elaine Dorset, National Park Service archaeologist, with two replica sabers that will help re-enactors represent an Army dragoon unit at Fort Vancouver in the 1850s. The saber with the gold-colored bell guard will be carried by re-enactors. The one with the silver-colored bell guard and rubber tip is a training saber.

September 13, 2017, 6:00am Clark County News

Living history will have an edge to it — a dull edge, anyway — during a new training program at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Read story

Wy’east Middle School sixth-graders Liz Rangel, from left, Grace Smith, Diego Ku Bauzo and Audrey Shillinger dust off fossils during Evergreen Public Schools’ dual immersion class on Tuesday morning. The students have been in the same class, where they are instructed in both Spanish and English, since 2011 when they entered kindergarten. “We’re like family,” Grace said.

Spanish-English immersion classes bear rich fruit

Wy’east Middle School sixth-graders Liz Rangel, from left, Grace Smith, Diego Ku Bauzo and Audrey Shillinger dust off fossils during Evergreen Public Schools’ dual immersion class on Tuesday morning. The students have been in the same class, where they are instructed in both Spanish and English, since 2011 when they entered kindergarten. “We’re like family,” Grace said.

September 13, 2017, 6:00am Clark County News

To the untrained ear, it’s hard to follow Wy’east Middle School teacher Amy Matsumoto’s humanities class. After all, at a predominantly white school in central Vancouver, it’s not common to hear a teacher explain entirely in Spanish how to study and draw artifacts. Read story

Fire burns on the flank of Archer Mountain in western Skamania County in this photo released Saturday by the state Department of Natural Resources.

Archer Mountain Fire still 70 percent contained

Fire burns on the flank of Archer Mountain in western Skamania County in this photo released Saturday by the state Department of Natural Resources.

September 12, 2017, 9:45pm Clark County News Free

The Archer Mountain Fire burning in Skamania County remained at 70 percent containment as of Tuesday night. Read story

Sixth-grade students leave a portable at La Center Elementary School, where there are a total of 18 portable classrooms to help deal with the district’s growing population. The district will put a bond up for vote in February to build a new elementary or middle school to help deal with overcrowding.

La Center schools look to address crowding

Sixth-grade students leave a portable at La Center Elementary School, where there are a total of 18 portable classrooms to help deal with the district’s growing population. The district will put a bond up for vote in February to build a new elementary or middle school to help deal with overcrowding.

September 12, 2017, 7:55pm Clark County News

Finding room for all roughly 1,700 students in the La Center School District has turned into a slider puzzle of sorts for Superintendent Dave Holmes and other district officials. Read story

Steve Webb is Vancouver Public Schools superintendent and president of the Washington Association of School Administrators.

Webb says state budget fails on McCleary mandate

Steve Webb is Vancouver Public Schools superintendent and president of the Washington Association of School Administrators.

September 12, 2017, 7:46pm Clark County News

After initially saying he was “cautiously optimistic” the state operating budget would comply with the Supreme Court’s school funding mandate, Vancouver Public Schools Superintendent Steve Webb recently wrote that the budget “inadequately addresses the essential principle of the McCleary order — ample funding.” Read story

Bill Wilson of Portland was briefly detained after nearly driving through a crowd of protesters after a rally held by Joey Gibson’s Patriot Prayer Group in Vancouver on Sunday. He said Tuesday that he had been attempting to leave the area and had no intention of harming anyone.

Driver of truck: ‘I had no intention to hurt anybody’

Bill Wilson of Portland was briefly detained after nearly driving through a crowd of protesters after a rally held by Joey Gibson’s Patriot Prayer Group in Vancouver on Sunday. He said Tuesday that he had been attempting to leave the area and had no intention of harming anyone.

September 12, 2017, 4:34pm Clark County News

The driver of a truck who sped through a crowd of protesters in downtown Vancouver on Sunday said that he was trying to leave the situation and had no intention of harming anyone. Read story