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Julio Segura, right, listens to opening statements May 6 for his murder trial in the 2022 death of off-duty Vancouver police Officer Donald Sahota at the Clark County Courthouse.

Prosecutors will call final witness Tuesday in trial in death of Vancouver police officer

May 20, 2024, 4:04pm Clark County News

Clark County prosecutors plan to call their final witnesses Tuesday in the murder trial of a Yakima man accused in the death of off-duty Vancouver police Officer Donald Sahota. Read story

If you quit a job in WA, you can still get unemployment benefits under these conditions

May 20, 2024, 7:41am Business

Typically, if you quit your job, you are more than likely ineligible to apply for any benefits including unemployment, but there are some exceptions to this rule in Washington. Read story

Black Friday shoppers carry shopping bags at Vancouver Mall on Nov. 24. Taxable retail sales rose faster in the third quarter here than in Washington’s other urban areas.

Clark County’s taxable retail sales rose 1.69% in Q3 outpacing state’s other metro areas

May 20, 2024, 6:05am Business

Statewide retail sales slumped slightly in the third quarter of 2023, compared with the previous year, according to a recent report from the Washington Department of Revenue. But that’s not the case locally. Read story

Red dresses representing murdered and missing Indigenous women hang from trees outside the Cowlitz Indian Tribe Health & Human Services office in Hazel Dell on May 3. May is Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Awareness Month.

Washington is 2nd in the U.S. for missing and murdered Indigenous women; have recent efforts made headway?

May 18, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News

Julian C. Ankney of the Nez Perce Tribe heard stories since she was a child that Indigenous people go missing at higher rates. The statistics showed Indigenous people go missing at a rate 10 times the national average. In 2018, Ankney’s then-26-year-old brother vanished from an Idaho mall. Read story

The scenic boardwalk at the foot of Coldwater Lake.

Summer on the Mountain: Mount St. Helens pinnacle of recreation, science and learning

May 18, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

MOUNT ST. HELENS NATIONAL VOLCANIC MONUMENT — The fact that unpredictably moving rock has blocked the road to its prime visitor center says a lot about Mount St. Helens. Much of the landscape around this active volcano is literally new, making it one of the most uniquely beautiful and educational… Read story