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Debbie Hassler, Cowlitz, who serves as the Deputy Director of Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s Health and Human Services department, poses for her portrait outside the clinic on Nov. 8, 2024.

Building a model for gender-affirming care at Cowlitz Indian Tribe

The colonial legacies of assimilation policies and heteropatriarchal notions of gender and sexuality continue to reverberate through Indigenous communities, but many Native nations, like the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, are working…
Northwest
Houseboats float on Lake River in Ridgefield. The Port of Ridgefield is finalizing redevelopment plans for its waterfront property to include commercial, retail, residential and light industrial uses.

After decades of cleanup, the Port of Ridgefield is eyeing economic renewal on waterfront

Once a brownfield soaked with toxic chemicals, Ridgefield’s waterfront is poised to again become an economic hub.
Community Funded Journalism
Music director Jana Hart leads the Vancouver USA Singers (now Vancouver Master Chorale) as members rehearse in 2018 at First Presbyterian Church in Vancouver.

Longtime Vancouver Master Chorale artistic director Jana Hart is leaving on high note

We’re sorry to report that Vancouver is losing its musical Hart, as well as some of its fleetest keyboard fingers. Will this town ever sound the same?
Clark County Life
Photographed in 2018, Matt Moreno so loves Tesla electric vehicles he has two in the family. ǃúThe politics of the leader of the company is unfortunate, but I donǃÙt think it affects my view of their product,ǃù Moreno said recently.

Once a must for wealthy Seattle liberals, Teslas feel an Elon backlash

For Tesla drivers in and around Seattle, the mood these days can feel a little charged.
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Clark County

Matt Griffin, left, and Melinda Griffin on Thursday look over gift packages in honor of their daughter, Maddy, pictured at left, who died of brain cancer in 2022. They now honor their daughter with a Facebook page called “Miracle Maddy,” where they advocate for spreading awareness of childhood cancers. Every holiday season, the Griffin family makes goodie baskets for pediatric oncology patients.

Miracle Maddy: Vancouver family creates pediatric oncology gift baskets in honor of their daughter

Two years ago, the Griffin family of Vancouver lost their daughter to a rare form of brain cancer. Today, they honor her memory by creating…

Business

Workers talk outside an Amazon Web Services data center that is under construction on Wednesday, Aug. 21, 2024, in Boardman, Ore.

As data centers proliferate, conflict with local communities follows

The sprawling, windowless warehouses that hold rows of high-speed servers powering almost everything the world does on phones and computers are increasingly becoming fixtures of…

Northwest

Jessica Poe photographed with her two dogs, Rango (black and white) and Bijou after she comes home from work at her apartment in Redmond, Washington, on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. She moved from Spanaway to Redmond for a job that requires her to work in-person five days a week, but her commute is only 15 minutes instead of four hours and she can bring her dogs to work.

Seattle-area return-to-office mandates strain household budgets

After Jessica Poe, 41, separated from her husband in February, she found it hard to remain in Seattle.

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Sports

Seattle Seahawks running back Zach Charbonnet (26) scores a touchdown against the Arizona Cardinals during the first half of an NFL football game, Sunday, Dec. 8, 2024, in Glendale, Ariz.

Charbonnet runs for career-high 134 yards, 2 TDs as NFC West-leading Seahawks beat Cardinals 30-18

Zach Charbonnet ran for a career-high 134 yards and two touchdowns, Geno Smith threw for 233 yards and a score, and the Seattle Seahawks beat…

Politics

Eric and Lara Trump watch the second half of an NFL football game between the Miami Dolphins and the New England Patriots, Sunday, Nov. 24, 2024, in Miami Gardens, Fla.

Lara Trump stepping down as RNC co-chair and addressing speculation about Florida Senate seat

Lara Trump will step down as co-chair of the Republican National Committee as she considers a number of potential options with her father-in-law, President-elect Donald…

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Law enforcement officers investigate a shooting at the Cascade Park Safeway store on Thursday morning, Dec. 5, 2024. Vancouver police shot and killed a man Wednesday night after he physically attacked a police officer, according to a statement from the agency.

Vancouver police fatally shoot a man who authorities say had gun, physically attacked an officer

Vancouver police shot and killed a man Wednesday night in east Vancouver after he physically attacked an officer, according to a statement from the agency.

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Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announces a $149.5 million settlement with drugmaker Johnson & Johnson, more than four years after the state sued the company over its role fueling the opioid addiction crisis, in Olympia, Jan. 24, 2024.

How should the opioid settlements be spent? Those hit hardest often don’t have a say

People with substance use disorder across the country are not getting a formal say in how most of the approximately $50 billion in opioid lawsuit…

Life

This image released by Searchlight Pictures shows Kieran Culkin, left, and Jesse Eisenberg in a scene from "A Real Pain." (Searchlight Pictures via AP)

‘Emilia PĂ©rez’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 10, followed by ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Conclave’

Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia PĂ©rez,” about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery to become a woman, led nominations to the 82nd…

Nation / World

Sen.-elect Adam Schiff, D-Calif., arrives to meet with fellow Democrats for caucus leadership elections, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/J.

Sen.-elect Adam Schiff doesn’t want to talk about Trump. He wants to talk about the economy

Sen.-elect Adam B. Schiff doesn’t really want to talk about President-elect Donald Trump. He wants to talk about the economy.

High School Sports – September 2024

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Editorial Cartoons for the Week of Dec. 9, 2024

In Our View: Cheers & Jeers: ‘A normal life’; depleted funds

Feldman: Court won’t save Musk DOGE plans

Yglesias: Embrace reality or lose

Other Papers Say: Keep up fight against overdoses

Should historical markers be reviewed and updated?

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