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Washington state health officials are investigating after four agricultural workers tested presumptively positive for bird flu, marking the first presumed human cases in the state, the Washington State Department of Health announced Sunday. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Four test positive in WA’s first human bird flu infections

October 21, 2024, 7:50am Health

Washington state health officials are investigating after four agricultural workers tested presumptively positive for bird flu, marking the first presumed human cases in the state, the Washington State Department of Health announced Sunday. Read story

Seven people were displaced in an apartment fire Sunday evening on east Fourth Plain Boulevard.

Vancouver apartment fire initially reported as electrical issues

October 21, 2024, 7:47am Clark County News

Vancouver firefighters spent 41/2 hours combatting an apartment fire Sunday night in central Vancouver. The fire displaced seven people from the complex on East Fourth Plain Boulevard. Read story

Rebecca Kimmel is seen reflected in her artwork depicting twins at her home Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024, in Seattle. Kimmel believes her adoption agency switched her identity with another girl, and that she may have a twin. Thousands of South Korean adoptees are looking to satisfy a raw, compelling urge that much of the world takes for granted: the search for identity.

A South Korean adoptee needed answers about the past. She got them — just not the ones she wanted

October 21, 2024, 6:05am Latest News

Rebecca Kimmel sat in a small room, stunned and speechless, staring at the baby photo she had just unearthed from her adoption file. Read story

Dave’y Lumley, left, and Noah Sampson of Yakama Nation Fisheries survey for new lamprey sites near the mouth of the Lewis River in Woodland on Sept. 25.

Can Pacific lamprey numbers be restored in the Columbia River Basin? Yakama Nation biologists think so

October 19, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News

Biologist Dave’y Lumley paced the shallow water at the mouth of the Lewis River on an overcast morning late last month. With each step, she carefully scanned the water in front of her, holding two hockey sticklike probes just under the surface. Read story

Author and Vancouver historian Pat Jollota in her home office in 2018. Jollta will give a talk Monday about some of the notable women of Clark County over its history.

Legendary ladies: Historian Pat Jollota admires, explores remarkable Clark County women

October 19, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life Subscriber Exclusive

Clark County’s growth and identity have always been shaped by remarkable women. One such woman — an author, historian, civic activist, former city councilwoman and Clark County’s 2012 First Citizen — will shine an admiring light on her predecessors during a historical talk Monday. Read story

The bell in the Providence Academy cupola, which provides a view of downtown Vancouver, was installed in 1878 and removed after the building was sold in 1968. Its return in 1975 was marked by tragedy.

Clark County history: Academy bell’s return mixed with grief

October 19, 2024, 6:10am Clark County Life

For a brief time, Providence Academy was Washington Territory’s largest brick building. Constructed in 1874 of bricks supplied from Vancouver’s Hidden brickyard, Mother Joseph designed the structure. Read story

A truck prepares to leave the Zimmerly gravel pit near Washougal in 2018.

Washougal Pit owner tries to resume mining, again

October 19, 2024, 6:10am Business

A year after being denied, Ridgefield resident Judith Zimmerly is once again attempting to get permits to resume gravel mining on her property known as the Washougal Pit. Read story