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EU condemns reported Taliban move to suspend medical education for women and girls

December 4, 2024, 1:09pm Nation & World

The European Union on Wednesday condemned the Taliban for violating human rights and women’s access to education after media reports that the Taliban’s leader has ordered private and public institutions… Read story

A year after increases, Clark Public Utilities won’t raise rates in 2025

December 4, 2024, 12:21pm Business

Clark Public Utilities won’t raise rates next year under a 2025 budget adopted by commissioners Tuesday morning. Read story

Clark County

Braille proofreader Adrienne Libby checks over a novel Wednesday at the Ogden Resource Center.

Incarcerated women work with Washington School for the Blind in Vancouver to transcribe Braille

For almost 30 years, incarcerated women in Washington have been part of a program that transcribes documents, pamphlets, business cards, textbooks, novels, music, signs and…

Northwest

Construction is nearing completion on Laurel Manor, an affordable housing building for seniors.

Costs remain high for WA affordable housing projects

Many affordable housing projects in Washington are funded in part by the state’s Housing Trust Fund.

Politics

Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump&rsquo;s nominee to be defense secretary, is joined by his wife Jennifer Rauchet, left, as they arrive to meet with Sen. Ted Budd, R-N.C., a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/J.

Trump considers DeSantis for the Pentagon with Hegseth under pressure over allegations: AP sources

Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s Pentagon pick, was fighting to hold on to his Cabinet nomination amid growing questions Wednesday about his personal conduct as the…

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Schools

Clark College student Felix Cuevas, 19, sells clothes from his line at Mercury League in Vancouver Mall.

Clark College freshman, inspired by TikTok and wanting to promote diversity, created his own clothing line

A 19-year-old Clark College freshman’s idea to create a clothing line with a message of equality and diversity stemmed from a TikTok video.

Courts & Crime

Guadalupe V. Munoz, 44, appears in May in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of vehicular homicide, vehicular assault and driving under the influence. He struck a fire truck that had responded to a prior crash and then struck two pedestrians who had stopped to help, killing one and injuring the other. He was sentenced Tuesday to about 12 years in prison.

Woodland man who killed woman when he crashed into first responders, good Samaritans on I-5 gets 12½ years

A Woodland man was sentenced Tuesday to 12½ years in prison for a May drunken-driving crash that killed one person and injured another who had…

Nation & World

FILE - Well water flows from pumps into a canal that will be used to irrigate a vineyard, Monday, July 25, 2022, in Rio Vista, Calif.

California farmers are hopeful Trump administration will deliver more water to fields

Since winning the election, President-elect Donald Trump has been talking about immigration, border security and government efficiency.

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Business News

A New York police officer walks outside a hotel where a 50-year-old man was fatally shot in midtown Manhattan, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, in New York.

UnitedHealthcare CEO is killed in a ‘targeted shooting’ outside a New York hotel, officials say

Brian Thompson, the CEO of UnitedHealthcare, was fatally shot outside a hotel in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday morning, according to a person briefed on the…

Weather

A frosty rooftop is seen under cold conditions in southeast Vancouver on Tuesday morning.

It’s a La Niña winter — or is it? Why there’s uncertainty and how it will affect WA weather

We’ve known for a while that the upcoming winter was expected to see the effects of La Niña. But as the calendar turns to December,…

Health

FILE - Julia Williams holds a sign in counterprotest during a rally in favor of a ban on gender-affirming health care legislation, Monday, March 20, 2023, at the Missouri Statehouse in Jefferson City, Mo.

Majority of Supreme Court seems reluctant to block state bans on medical treatments for minors

Hearing a high-profile culture-war clash, a majority of the Supreme Court seemed reluctant Wednesday to block Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for minors.

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