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West Vancouver residents plead with city to clear homeless camp along West Mill Plain Boulevard

November 19, 2024, 2:48pm Clark County News Updated 11 hours ago

A dozen west Vancouver residents pleaded with the city council on Monday to clear a homeless encampment along West Mill Plain Boulevard. Read story

Vancouver council OKs tax increases and new taxes to close $43M deficit and pay for homeless ‘bridge shelter’

November 19, 2024, 12:58pm Business Updated 11 hours ago

People parking, buying movie tickets and shopping in Vancouver can expect to pay more starting next year. Read story

Vancouver City Council sets community forum on Nov. 25

November 20, 2024, 12:52pm Clark County News

The Vancouver City Council will host its next community forum from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Nov. 25 at the Evergreen Public Schools Administrative Service Center, 13413 N.E. LeRoy Haagen Memorial Drive. Read story

HP has submitted an update to its master plan for a campus in east Vancouver bear the intersection of 192 Avenue and First Street, pictured here in 2022. The HP site is on the righthand side of the photo south of the semi parking area. Retail in Lacamas Crossing on the corner started opening earlier this year.

HP master plan includes six new buildings at east Vancouver site; city will review application next year

November 6, 2024, 1:05pm Business

Technology hardware company HP Inc. submitted a new master plan application for its property in east Vancouver’s Section 30, according to a city of Vancouver spokesman. Read story

Victim advocate Ashlie Clark takes a break at the Children’s Justice Center in downtown Vancouver on Friday afternoon, Oct. 18, 2024.

After public outcry, Vancouver will fund Columbia Springs, Watershed Alliance, Children’s Justice Center positions in 2025

November 6, 2024, 7:00am Clark County News

After much public fervor, the Vancouver City Council agreed Monday to recommend funding Columbia Springs, the Watershed Alliance and two positions at the Children’s Justice Center for another year. However, councilors said the organizations will need to find alternative funding in the future. Read story

Save our Streets Vancouver has collected more than 6,500 signatures to place an initiative on the November 2025 ballot that would send all decisions about removing traffic lanes to a vote of the people.

Save Vancouver Streets gathers 6,517 signatures, delivers petition for 2025 ballot initiative

November 4, 2024, 5:41pm Clark County News

Members of the grassroots group Save Vancouver Streets said they delivered a petition with 6,517 signatures to Vancouver City Hall on Monday seeking a ballot initiative that would require voter approval to remove traffic lanes. Read story

A zoning change in Vancouver could prevent mobile home parks from being leveled for development

Rick Seekins, a homeowner at the Vista Del Rio mobile home park, walks outside his home, which cannot be moved if the park is sold for development. The city of Vancouver is considering a mobile home overlay zone that would prevent manufactured home parks from being sold and turned into commercial buildings or other forms of housing.

October 30, 2024, 6:10am Business

Amid fears that their mobile-home park could be sold to developers, residents of Vista Del Rio are urging the Vancouver City Council to pass regulations protecting parks like theirs from being leveled to make way for something else. Read story

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

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.

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