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Measure to prevent phasing out of natural gas in WA is on track for November ballot

July 3, 2024, 6:41pm Election Free

It’s now all but assured voters will get to weigh in this November on Washington’s polarizing efforts to phase out natural gas use in homes and other buildings. Read story

Brent Luyster III appears Wednesday in Clark County Superior Court for his sentencing hearing for a December 2022 shoplifting robbery. A judge sentenced him to 71/2 years in prison.

Clark County judge sentences Brent Luyster III to more than 7 years in prison in shoplifting robbery

July 3, 2024, 6:18pm Clark County News

A judge granted Brent Luyster III a mid-range sentence of 7½ years Wednesday for a December 2022 shoplifting robbery he committed five months after beating a murder charge. Read story

Phillip Dick, who has been a volunteer at Living Hope Church for four years, takes a moment to rest while helping those in need escape the heat wave at the church's cooling center in August 2023.

Cooling centers set to open in Clark County during heat wave

July 3, 2024, 6:12pm Churches & Religion Free

Council for the Homeless issued a severe weather alert for Friday and Saturday for the emergency shelter system in Clark County. Read story

People watch as a helicopter bound for Camp Hope of Southwest Washington carries a new water tank through the air Wednesday at Lewisville Regional Park near Battle Ground.

Helicopter delivers three 6,000-gallon water tanks to Clark County youth camp

July 3, 2024, 5:59pm Clark County News

New water tanks arrived airborne Wednesday to fix an aging water system at a youth camp on rugged Clark County-owned property. Read story

Neios Soien makes a first appearance in Clark County Superior Court in connection with a December 2022 fatal drunken-driving crash. He was sentenced Friday to more than 16 years in prison.

Vancouver man sentenced to 16 years in prison for 2022 deadly drunken-driving crash in central Vancouver

July 3, 2024, 5:57pm Clark County News

A Vancouver man was sentenced Friday to more than 16 years in prison for a 2022 deadly drunken-driving crash in central Vancouver. Read story

Cyanobacteria are microscopic bacteria, otherwise known as blue-green algae, that form harmful blooms during the summer. They flourish in warm, stagnant water filled with nutrients, such as Lacamas Lake as pictured in 2021. Blooms often occur in Vancouver, Lacamas and Round lakes.

Warning issued for Lacamas Lake due to cyanotoxin levels

July 3, 2024, 2:52pm Clark County Health Free

Clark County Public Health warned Wednesday that skiing and swimming at Lacamas Lake could make residents sick due to elevated levels of cyanotoxins from algae. Read story

FILE - Wildlife technician Jordan Hazan records data in a lab from a male barred owl he shot earlier in the night, Oct. 24, 2018, in Corvallis, Ore. U.S. wildlife officials want to kill hundreds of thousands of barred owls in coming decades as part of a controversial plan to help spotted owl populations. (AP Photo/Ted S.

To save spotted owls, US officials plan to kill hundreds of thousands of another owl species

July 3, 2024, 11:40am Latest News

To save the imperiled spotted owl from potential extinction, U.S. wildlife officials are embracing a contentious plan to deploy trained shooters into dense West Coast forests to kill almost a half-million barred owls that are crowding out their smaller cousins. Read story

A sandwich board outside the information booth at the Vancouver Farmers Market in 2020 highlights the benefits for EBT card users and members of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. After SNAP benefits received a boost in 2021, SNAP benefit use at the farmers market increased by 450 percent.

At least $5.5M in food and cash assistance lost to ‘alarming surge’ in card scams

July 3, 2024, 7:44am Latest News Free

Washington residents on food assistance have lost $5.5 million to electronic benefit transfer – commonly known as EBT – card reader scams in the past two years. Read story