Clark County Politics

A for sale sign sits outside a vacant building on Northeast 94th Avenue in Vancouver in August. The building is a potential site for the City of Vancouver's 150-bed bridge shelter.

Clark County won’t help Vancouver pay for homeless shelter

October 25, 2024, 2:29pm Clark County Health

Clark County won’t help Vancouver pay for a 150-bed homelessness shelter after all. Read story

LEADOPTION Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, left, and 3rd Congressional District candidate Joe Kent, R-Yacolt, greet the crowd in Ridgefield on Thursday afternoon.

Speaker Mike Johnson stumps for Joe Kent in Clark County for second time

October 24, 2024, 5:23pm Clark County News

Residents shared concerns about agriculture, the timber industry and COVID-19 vaccines with U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson, who was in Ridgefield on Thursday to campaign for 3rd Congressional District Republican candidate Joe Kent. Read story

Administrators with the Clark County Sheriff’s Office attend a Clark County Council work session Wednesday at the Public Service Center in Vancouver. They asked the council to add 40 new deputies to their ranks during a meeting with other local criminal justice officials.

Clark County manager says Vancouver’s Prop. 4 would take millions out of county’s budget

October 24, 2024, 12:21pm Clark County News

Local criminal justice officials sounded the alarm Tuesday at a Clark County Council work session over what the passage of Vancouver’s Proposition 4, which would add 80 new police officers, could mean for what they say is already a strained system. Read story

A complaint has been filed against Chuck Keplar, who is running for Clark County Council, for allegedly failing to disclose payments in excess for $12,000 to the Public Disclosure Commission.

Complaint against Clark County Council candidate Keplar claims he failed to report payments in earlier campaign

October 23, 2024, 3:21pm Clark County News

A complaint filed with Washington’s Public Disclosure Commission claims Clark County Council candidate Chuck Keplar violated state campaign finance rules when he failed to disclose earnings he received while running for an Evergreen Public Schools board seat in 2023. Read story

A truck travels northbound on the Interstate 5 Bridge in 2021.

Joe Kent doesn’t like the I-5 Bridge project. Could he change it if he’s in Congress?

October 23, 2024, 10:23am Clark County News Free

Joe Kent doesn’t like how the project to replace the Interstate 5 bridge across the Columbia River is shaping up. Read story

Can you track your vote until it’s counted in Washington state this election? Here’s how

Ballots are sorted at Clark County Elections Office on Tuesday afternoon, Aug. 6, 2024.

For some, voting by mail can be an easy and convenient way to cast a ballot in an election. But what if you’re concerned that your ballot got misplaced, or lost in the mail? Turns out, there’s a way to address that. Read story

Clark County Council says Vancouver’s police levy would create more work for the county without paying for it

Members of the Vancouver Police Department carry a naked man up the beach during a mental health episode that brought paramedics, firefighters and police officers to Wintler Park under an excessive heat warning on Thursday afternoon, Sept. 5, 2024.

The Clark County Council on Friday adopted a resolution warning that passage of Vancouver’s Proposition 4, which would raise property taxes to add 80 new police officers, will create more work for the rest of the criminal justice system without providing money to pay for it. Read story