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Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, Santa and Princess Pearle (left, being held), 2, wave to a crowd of more than 5,000 people who came out to see the tree lighting Friday night in Esther Short Park. McEnerny-Ogle asked Pearle to help her officially light the tree this year.

Santa, mayor and Princess Pearle light up holiday season in Vancouver

Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle, Santa and Princess Pearle (left, being held), 2, wave to a crowd of more than 5,000 people who came out to see the tree lighting Friday night in Esther Short Park. McEnerny-Ogle asked Pearle to help her officially light the tree this year.

November 29, 2019, 8:58pm Clark County News

When Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle was looking for help lighting the Christmas tree in Esther Short Park, she knew just who to call: Vancouver’s very own princess. Read story

Associate professor Steven R. Sylvester examines new growth on a clone of Titan VanCoug, a corpse flower that bloomed earlier this year at Washington State University Vancouver.

Mold kept WSUV corpse flower from bearing fruit

Associate professor Steven R. Sylvester examines new growth on a clone of Titan VanCoug, a corpse flower that bloomed earlier this year at Washington State University Vancouver.

November 28, 2019, 6:34pm Clark County News

The fruiting body of Titan VanCoug — the rare corpse flower at Washington State University Vancouver that drew thousands of visitors to the campus this summer — should be green and healthy, producing seeds. Instead, it’s rotting away. Read story

Johnathan Casey with All-Clean! SoftWash places Christmas lights in a tree at Esther Short Park on Tuesday morning.

Trimming Vancouver’s community Christmas tree in Esther Short Park

Johnathan Casey with All-Clean! SoftWash places Christmas lights in a tree at Esther Short Park on Tuesday morning.

November 27, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

It’s beginning to look a lot like Thanksgiving, but Christmas, too, as workers decorated the community Christmas tree Tuesday in Vancouver’s Esther Short Park.  Read story

Magnum Power cold apprentice lineman Quinn Wise replaces high-pressure sodium streetlights with LED lights in Vancouver&#039;s North Image neighborhood. Over the coming months Magnum Power will be replacing the high-pressure sodium streetlights with LEDs. The new lights will use half the power, last twice as long and emit a whiter light.

Vancouver begins replacing streetlights with energy-efficient LEDs

Magnum Power cold apprentice lineman Quinn Wise replaces high-pressure sodium streetlights with LED lights in Vancouver&#039;s North Image neighborhood. Over the coming months Magnum Power will be replacing the high-pressure sodium streetlights with LEDs. The new lights will use half the power, last twice as long and emit a whiter light.

November 26, 2019, 6:03am Clark County News

Forty-nine down, 13,451 to go. That's how many bulbs have been swapped out in Vancouver as of Monday afternoon as the city kicks off a project to replace all of the sodium bulbs in its cobra-head streetlights with energy-efficient LEDs. Read story

Vancouver City Council chambers.

Taxpayers question cost, scope of A Stronger Vancouver

Vancouver City Council chambers.

November 25, 2019, 10:03pm Clark County News

Citizens packed the Vancouver City Council’s meeting Monday evening, as more than a dozen residents offered feedback on the 50-plus proposals laid out in A Stronger Vancouver. Read story

CooperCon founder Eric Ulis, left, and author Bruce Smith moderate a Cooper-themed trivia contest Saturday afternoon at the Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver. The event moved from Portland to Vancouver this year and featured talks on specifics from the case, a film about Cooper and plenty of theories on what happened nearly 50 years ago. At top: Rick E. George, author of the book &quot;Cooper&#039;s Loot,&quot; listens as a forensics film plays during Saturday&#039;s CooperCon festivities.

D.B. Cooper enthusiasts land in Vancouver for CooperCon

CooperCon founder Eric Ulis, left, and author Bruce Smith moderate a Cooper-themed trivia contest Saturday afternoon at the Kiggins Theatre in downtown Vancouver. The event moved from Portland to Vancouver this year and featured talks on specifics from the case, a film about Cooper and plenty of theories on what happened nearly 50 years ago. At top: Rick E. George, author of the book &quot;Cooper&#039;s Loot,&quot; listens as a forensics film plays during Saturday&#039;s CooperCon festivities.

November 23, 2019, 7:48pm Clark County News

Tom Kaye has a saying about the D.B. Cooper mythos. Read story

Picturesque Vancouver Lake, as seen from Northwest Lakeshore Avenue on Friday, could receive some state help to address long-standing water quality problems.

Vancouver Lake gets attention from state officials

Picturesque Vancouver Lake, as seen from Northwest Lakeshore Avenue on Friday, could receive some state help to address long-standing water quality problems.

November 22, 2019, 6:51pm Clark County News

Friends of Vancouver Lake is seeking state action to reduce cyanobacteria and other water quality problems that have plagued the 2,300-acre lake for decades. Read story

Ginn Group and Columbia Non Profit Housing are partnering on a 69-unit senior housing project to be built in Vancouver&#039;s uptown area.

Low-income senior housing project slated for uptown Vancouver

Ginn Group and Columbia Non Profit Housing are partnering on a 69-unit senior housing project to be built in Vancouver&#039;s uptown area.

November 22, 2019, 6:00am Clark County News

Private housing developer Ginn Group is embarking on its first income- and age-restricted housing project in Vancouver. A four-story building with 69 apartments is planned for the uptown area, between Esther and Daniels streets, just north of 15th Street. Read story

Vancouver Fire Department firefighter Kady Bieber, left, helps second-grader Erson Ermay pick out a new winter coat Thursday at Washington Elementary School in Vancouver. Firefighters with IAFF have partnered with Operation Warm to distribute more than 200,000 coats in more than 300 cities nationwide since 2012. Dutch Bros Coffee and Paul Davis Restoration partnered with Local 452 to help raise funds for this year's event.

Operation Warm outfits Vancouver children with winter coats

Vancouver Fire Department firefighter Kady Bieber, left, helps second-grader Erson Ermay pick out a new winter coat Thursday at Washington Elementary School in Vancouver. Firefighters with IAFF have partnered with Operation Warm to distribute more than 200,000 coats in more than 300 cities nationwide since 2012. Dutch Bros Coffee and Paul Davis Restoration partnered with Local 452 to help raise funds for this year's event.

November 21, 2019, 8:43pm Clark County News

Vancouver firefighters represented by Local 452 of the International Association of Fire Fighters raised more than $6,000 this year to purchase 315 coats for students at four schools serving low-income neighborhoods. Read story

Caples Terrace, located at 505 Omaha Way, is a three-story residential building for homeless youth and youth aging out of foster care. Vancouver Housing Authority developed the project in partnership with architecture and engineering firm Otak and LMC Construction.

Vancouver Housing Authority to urge state to redefine affordable housing

Caples Terrace, located at 505 Omaha Way, is a three-story residential building for homeless youth and youth aging out of foster care. Vancouver Housing Authority developed the project in partnership with architecture and engineering firm Otak and LMC Construction.

November 21, 2019, 7:18pm Clark County News

Vancouver Housing Authority looks to change the state’s definition of affordable housing. Currently under state law affordable rental housing means costs (including utilities) do not exceed 30 percent of a household’s monthly income. Read story