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Vancouver police say ‘news release’ about threats, arrests was fake

January 28, 2020, 6:18am Courts & Crime

The Vancouver Police Department said that it and Evergreen High School were the topic of a fake news release circulating on Snapchat and Facebook. Read story

Hudson's Bay basketball player Darol Alafanso, center, wears a T-shirt reading "We Will Not Be Silent" on Friday against Kelso. Players and fans demonstrated against racial taunts they say they experienced during a game Jan. 7 in Kelso.

Kelso district: Racist taunts, groping claims by Hudson’s Bay students ‘unfounded’

January 27, 2020, 3:16pm Editor's Choice

Kelso School District officials Monday rejected claims that its fans and players directed racist taunts at Hudson's Bay players during a Jan. 7 boys basketball game — claims that led to a protest when Kelso visited Hudson's Bay for a rematch in Vancouver on Friday night. Read story

A group opposed to a proposed Verizon cell tower meets Thursday in front of the land where the tower would be built, across the street from Woodburn Elementary School.

Parents object to proposed cell tower near Woodburn Elementary

January 25, 2020, 6:01am Clark County News

In May 2017, Clark County Community Development prepared a pre-application report for a proposed 120-foot Verizon cell tower. The report offered a warning: Read story

Gaydena Thompson, a former Clark College athletic director and the first woman to hold the position at a state community college, died Dec. 31. Thompson was inducted into the inaugural class of the Clark College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.

Gaydena Thompson, first woman to serve as a Washington community college athletic director, dies

January 24, 2020, 5:35pm Clark County News

As a professional, Gaydena Thompson is remembered as a force, a trailblazer, a woman with integrity. To those who knew her personally, she was all that and a woman whose kind smile stayed true to the end. Read story

Kassidy Young of Vancouver gathers with her fellow graduates during Saturday’s Washington State University Vancouver commencement ceremony at Sunlight Supply Amphitheater.

Washington may have problems paying for new free and discounted college plan

January 24, 2020, 2:00pm Northwest

Washington lawmakers made national headlines when they promised to use a new business tax to make tuition at public colleges significantly more affordable — or free — for students across the state, starting in the 2020-2021 school year. Read story

Wy’east Middle School students say bon voyage to their miniboat, hope it makes it to Japan

Bar pilot captain Dan Jordan, left, and deck hand Tyler Bartel pull the S/V Liberty miniboat from the Columbia River following a test launch in Astoria, Ore., on Tuesday afternoon.

ASTORIA, Ore. -- The news of the Tohoku earthquake and subsequent tsunami off the coast of Japan gripped the world in 2011. The reverberations of that quake were felt for years in the Pacific Northwest, where debris from the 9.0 earthquake washed up years later along the coast. Read story