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Clark College students Heather Leasure, from left, Ryan Oaks and Shalana Marshall talk with a group of their student peers about sexual harassment prevention and intervention during a College 101 class at Clark College on Tuesday morning. This student volunteer program was made possible by a grant from the Office on Violence Against Women.

Clark College takes aim at sexual assault

Clark College students Heather Leasure, from left, Ryan Oaks and Shalana Marshall talk with a group of their student peers about sexual harassment prevention and intervention during a College 101 class at Clark College on Tuesday morning. This student volunteer program was made possible by a grant from the Office on Violence Against Women.

February 19, 2019, 7:56pm Clark County News

Clark College hopes a $300,000 grant will help the Vancouver campus target sexual assault and violence against its students — by increasing the number of incidents that are reported to college officials. Read story

Alissa Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., poses for a photo with a portrait of her family at her Clark County home. Parker has become an advocate for school safety since the death of her daughter, lobbying the Legislature and launching the Safe and Sound Schools initiative. Family members pictured are Samantha, Robbie, Alissa, Emilie and Madeline Parker.

Mom of Sandy Hook victim is striving for safe schools

Alissa Parker, whose daughter Emilie was killed in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., poses for a photo with a portrait of her family at her Clark County home. Parker has become an advocate for school safety since the death of her daughter, lobbying the Legislature and launching the Safe and Sound Schools initiative. Family members pictured are Samantha, Robbie, Alissa, Emilie and Madeline Parker.

February 19, 2019, 6:02am Clark County News

In 2012, Alissa Parker walked into Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., for a parent-teacher conference for her first-grade daughter, Emilie. Read story

University of Washington sophomore Ishaan Bhimani, 19, second from right, joins fellow Washington college students as they speak out in favor of stronger renewable energy policy, while joined by Port of Vancouver Commissioner Don Orange, right, Monday afternoon. The group gathered at the offices of SunModo, a Vancouver solar panel-mounting company. Orange said he was not representing the Port of Vancouver at the event.

College students promote clean energy bills at Sunmodo in Vancouver

University of Washington sophomore Ishaan Bhimani, 19, second from right, joins fellow Washington college students as they speak out in favor of stronger renewable energy policy, while joined by Port of Vancouver Commissioner Don Orange, right, Monday afternoon. The group gathered at the offices of SunModo, a Vancouver solar panel-mounting company. Orange said he was not representing the Port of Vancouver at the event.

February 18, 2019, 7:16pm Clark County News

College student activists touring Washington stopped in Vancouver on Monday in support of moving the state toward 100 percent clean energy, and for bills aimed at that goal making their way through the Legislature. Read story

Mavis Nickels (Samuel Wilson for The Columbian)

2 Battle Ground school board members resigning

Mavis Nickels (Samuel Wilson for The Columbian)

February 17, 2019, 4:40pm Clark County News

Two Battle Ground Public Schools school board members have announced their resignations. Read story

Stonier primary sponsor of bond majority bill

February 16, 2019, 10:11pm Clark County News

Election Day could have given the Ridgefield School District cause to celebrate, with a majority of voters — 57.9 percent — supporting a school bond that would have paid for the construction of new schools in the rapidly growing district. Read story

Hockinson, Ridgefield schools consider levies

February 15, 2019, 8:22pm Clark County News

Two Clark County school boards next week will consider putting school funding levies on an upcoming ballot, including one whose voters just rejected the same measures. Read story

Vancouver School of Arts and Academics seniors Rachel Ralphs, left, and Locke Landis, right, rehearse the routine Ralphs choreographed for the upcoming Northwest Regional High School Dance Festival.

Hosting regional festival big step for VSAA dance

Vancouver School of Arts and Academics seniors Rachel Ralphs, left, and Locke Landis, right, rehearse the routine Ralphs choreographed for the upcoming Northwest Regional High School Dance Festival.

February 15, 2019, 6:06am Clark County Life

As the overhead lights on the Vancouver School of Arts and Academics stage bathed five dancers in cool colors, choreographer Abby Steinke watched her routine, “Was and Will Be,” come to life. Read story

Vancouver teen’s family says girl died in ‘choking game’

February 14, 2019, 9:13pm Clark County Health

The family of a 13-year-old girl in Vancouver says the teen died while playing a dangerous game. Read story