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Yacolt man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder days after he and his tenant were involved in a dispute

October 9, 2024, 2:56pm Clark County News

Clark County sheriff’s deputies arrested a Yacolt man Tuesday night after he allegedly shot his roommate and tenant in the face and chest with a 12-gauge shotgun. Read story

Woman’s death being investigated as a homicide in west Hazel Dell

October 9, 2024, 1:51pm Clark County News

The Clark County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a suspicious death as a homicide after a woman was found dead inside a home in west Hazel Dell Tuesday night. Read story

A corrections officer pushes Kenneth Jay Moore, 53, into a courtroom for a hearing Aug. 23 in Clark County Superior Court. Moore was resentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison for the 2017 killing of his mother at their Vancouver home. He was originally sentenced to 34 years in prison, but the Washington Court of Appeals found factors that a judge considered when he ordered the sentence were not properly proven to the jury that convicted him.

Vancouver man who killed his mother resentenced to 33 years in prison after appeal

October 9, 2024, 1:51pm Clark County News

A Vancouver man who killed his mother and dismembered her body at their home in February 2017 was resentenced Wednesday to 33 years in prison after winning part of his appeal. Read story

Fire crews conducting a prescribed burn Tuesday at Lacamas Prairie spread out into two lines, a burn line and a hold line, once a test fire is finished. A test fire is necessary to ensure temperature, humidity, wind and other conditions are met before the controlled burn can move forward.

Prescribed burn at Lacamas Prairie Natural Area part of larger plan to protect against wildfires

October 9, 2024, 1:29pm Clark County News

The presence of fire crews, emergency vehicles and smoke drifting up from the Lacamas Prairie Natural Area early Tuesday afternoon may have alarmed some residents, but it was all part of a controlled burn by the state Department of Natural Resources. Read story

The 30-second spots display the newspaper headline “Traffic slowed a whole lot in 2023,” along with traffic snarls, a bus and a couple of snails. The punchline? If I-2117 passes, travelers might be jealous of a snail.

‘Snail’ campaign ad exaggerates traffic clogs from repealing WA carbon fees

October 9, 2024, 12:41pm Election

Defenders of Washington state’s carbon fees have filled television with ads saying that Initiative 2117, to repeal the Climate Commitment Act, would make traffic congestion worse — despite the fact carbon-fee money doesn’t go toward state highways. Read story

‘There’s nowhere for her to go’: Number of homeless domestic violence survivors has doubled in Clark County

Kathleen Stevens takes a phone call from a woman fleeing domestic violence with nowhere to go in July.

Kathleen Stevens recently took a phone call from a woman in Vancouver who believed her abuser would kill her that night. She’s terrified for her life and Stevens, an 82-year-old Hazel Dell woman who uses her savings to help fleeing domestic violence victims, is her last hope. Read story

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