The Columbian

School board meetings across Clark County have become more contentious in recent years, with parents squaring off with boards on budget cuts, priorities and unions. But an Evergreen parent group is working with the League of Women Voters to make communication better.

League of Women Voters partners with Evergreen parent group to raise the bar on communication

September 5, 2024, 5:13pm Clark County News

Post-pandemic education chaos has rendered school board meetings across Clark County hotbeds of emotion. Students are more stressed than ever, and districts struggle to pay for services they never had to provide before. Read story

Alex Goke, a research assistant, polishes some Cosmic Crisp apples at the Washington State University (WSU) Tree Fruit Research and Extension Center, in Wenatchee, WA on April 13, 2018.

What’s at the core of WSU’s new apple variety name delay?

September 5, 2024, 4:01pm Latest News

The newest Washington apple variety will remain nameless for a few more months, but consumers are still in line to get theirs by the end of the decade. Read story

Kirkland Warren, 28, listens during his change of plea hearing Thursday in Clark County Superior Court. Warren pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and aggravated first-degree murder in the deaths of his former girlfriend, 27-year-old Meshay Melendez, and her 7-year-old daughter, Layla Stewart, respectively.

Days before trial, Kirkland Warren pleads guilty to murders of Meshay Melendez and Layla Stewart

September 5, 2024, 3:54pm Clark County News

In an eleventh-hour decision, the man who fatally shot a Vancouver mother and her 7-year-old daughter and dumped their bodies along a rural road in Washougal pleaded guilty Thursday in their murders. Read story

Republican Joe Kent, left, and Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez wait before taking the stage for a debate in the race for the 3rd Congressional District, Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, in Vancouver.

Rep. Gluesenkamp Perez, Joe Kent will face off at least five times in October

September 5, 2024, 1:12pm Clark County News

Multiple debates between U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, and Joe Kent are slated for October. Read story

Troy Price, who is currently Vancouver’s deputy police chief, makes his pitch in May 2022 to become the city’s next police chief. At that time, city leadership chose Jeff Mori to become chief. Now Mori has endorsed Price to take over following Mori’s retirement from the agency next month.

Outgoing Vancouver police chief has a replacement in mind; he says Deputy Chief Troy Price ‘wants to serve”

September 5, 2024, 12:55pm Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

City officials do not yet have a plan for replacing Vancouver police Chief Jeff Mori, who’s slated to retire next month, but Mori has his own idea about who should take over. Read story

Smoggy conditions in Clark County mean vulnerable people should limit time outside

Air quality in Vancouver is expected to be poor through Friday due to heat.

September 5, 2024, 9:38am Clark County Health Free

Elevated levels of ozone pollution — otherwise known as smog — have prompted the Southwest Clean Air Agency and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality to issue an air quality advisory for the Portland-Vancouver and Salem, Ore., areas. The advisory is expected to remain in effect until 8 p.m. Friday. Read story

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