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The Temple of Justice is the Washington Supreme Court building in Olympia, Washington.

Voters will see budget effects of initiatives on ballots

August 12, 2024, 1:54pm Clark County Politics Free

Legal wrangling ended in the state’s high court Friday over the four initiatives that Washington voters will decide this November. Read story

Vancouver man killed in I-5 crash in Portland

August 12, 2024, 1:03pm Clark County News

A motorist killed in a crash on Interstate 5 on July 18 has been identified as 36-year-old Thomas Keough of Vancouver, according to the Portland Police Bureau. Read story

Various agencies in Clark County have warned that scams increase in the summer.

Scammers still pretending to be from the sheriff’s office to steal money

August 12, 2024, 11:31am Clark County News Free

Scammers are calling Clark County residents, pretending to be from the Clark County Sheriff’s Office or an attorney representing a family member, and requesting money, the sheriff’s office warned. Read story

FILE - Pelicans fly near the shore as waves from the Pacific Ocean roll in on May 14, 2024, on the Quinault reservation in Taholah, Wash.

Northwest tribes are battered by climate change but have to fight to get money meant to help them

August 12, 2024, 10:30am Latest News

Coastal tribes in the Pacific Northwest experience some of the most severe effects of climate change — from rising seas to severe heat — but face an array of bureaucratic barriers to access government funds meant to help them adapt, a report released Monday found. Read story

First responders work at the scene after a shooting left two people dead in central Vancouver on July 25.

The victim in a Vancouver murder-suicide had a protection order but Clark County judges say the law doesn’t let them take guns from abusers

August 12, 2024, 6:05am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

Carissa Larkin feared for her life after obtaining a civil domestic violence protection order in April against her former fiance. Read story

Former Jack in the Box employee Jasmine Brennan, in one of the franchise's locations in Washington state.

As teen employment rises in WA, so do youth labor violations

August 12, 2024, 6:02am Business

Jasmine Brennan started her first job a few months after turning 16. Like most high school students who work, Brennan found a position in food service, taking orders behind the counter at a Jack in the Box in Ferndale. Read story

Rainbow fentanyl pills and powder come in a variety of colors, shapes and sizes.

‘We can’t idly stand by and let children be harmed’: Lawmakers want to expand drug endangerment law

August 10, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive

In early May, Vancouver police responded to their second call of the day involving a young child believed to have overdosed from illicit drugs — this one, a 3-year-old girl on fentanyl. Before they arrived, her grandmother gave her naloxone, a drug used to counteract opioid overdoses. It took two… Read story

Cpl. Sean Metevia, left, looks on during a solid waste sweep of the sound wall along Mill Plain Boulevard as Tiffini Dillard, in black sweatshirt, of Vancouver’s Homelessness Assistance and Resource Team listens to a camper.

Members of Vancouver’s HART team face homelessness with compassion and sometimes disappointment

August 10, 2024, 6:14am Clark County News

In her job responding to Vancouver’s homeless encampments, Sheila Andrews often feels torn. Read story

Jaxon Cooper, 5, of Yacolt, right, flips off a sheep while taking a turn during the Monday afternoon’s Mutton Bustin’ preliminary competition at the Clark County Fair. Cooper was not seriously injured in the event.

Kids line up for a wild & woolly ride at the Clark County Fair

August 10, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life

Kids went for a wild ride — not at the carnival, but on sheep — during the Clark County Fair’s Mutton Bustin’ rodeo earlier this week. Read story