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FILE - In this Oct. 20, 2017, file photo, a sales clerk hands a pistol, being sold on behalf of the Aberdeen Police Department, to a customer to look at before an auction at Johnny's Auction House, where the company handles gun sales for police departments and the Lewis County Sheriff's Office, in Rochester, Wash. After years of trying, the Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday, Jan. 23, 2020, that allows the State Patrol to destroy guns they confiscated during criminal investigations.

Gun group wants new taxes and permits for WA firearm sales

Washington’s leading gun control group wants state lawmakers to make it tougher and more expensive to buy a firearm.
Politics
Cleanup crews remove solid waste along the Mill Plain Boulevard sound wall while joined by officials and members of the HART team. The city plans to close the camp around February.

‘We’re going in the right direction’: Vancouver has cleaned camps, expanded staff in year since homelessness emergency declared

In the year since Vancouver declared homelessness a civil emergency, the city has closed areas to camping and opened new shelters, but many people remain on the streets.
Clark County Politics
The city-owned arts hub, left, next to VITA Elementary School, will serve as a warming shelter through March, igniting parents' concern.

City’s plan to open winter shelter near Vancouver Innovation, Technology and Arts Elementary upsets parents

Vancouver’s plans to open a winter shelter Saturday next to an elementary school have ignited fear and anger among parents.
Clark County Politics
Law enforcement officers investigate a shooting at the Cascade Park Safeway store on Dec. 5. Vancouver police shot and killed a man the night before after he physically attacked a police officer, according to a statement from the agency.

Vancouver man, 45, identified in fatal police shooting

Officials on Tuesday identified a 45-year-old Vancouver man as the person fatally shot Dec. 4 by a Vancouver police officer outside of an east Vancouver Safeway.
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Clark County

Biotech company CytoDyn is developing a drug, leronlimab, from its headquarters in downtown Vancouver.

Former CytoDyn chief executive guilty in plot to defraud investors

A federal jury Monday convicted the former chief executive for local biotechnology company CytoDyn, along with the head of the company’s regulatory agent to the…

Business

The Shari’s restaurant on Chkalov Drive in Vancouver’s Cascade Park neighborhood is permanently closed.

Already in trouble, PNW restaurant chain Shari’s now target of lawsuits in Washington, Oregon

A once-prolific but now much-reduced Northwest restaurant chain is the focus of two class-action lawsuits involving former employees as well as job applicants.

Northwest

Glinting sunlight illuminates Sunflare apples growing in late summer 2024 at WSU's Sunrise Research Orchard near Wenatchee, Wash. Newly named in a public contest, these crunchy, tart, juicy apples are expected to reach consumers in 2029 (photo by Jeremy K.

New WA apple will be called Sunflare, WSU announces at event in Yakima

Washington State University announced the name for its new apple Tuesday morning at the Northwest Horticulture Expo in Yakima.

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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

Hunter Biden steps into a vehicle as he leaves federal court, Thursday, Sept. 5, 2024, in Los Angeles, after pleading guilty to federal tax charges.

Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of Biden’s pardon of his son Hunter, an AP-NORC poll finds

Only about 2 in 10 Americans approve of President Joe Biden’s decision to pardon his son Hunter after earlier promising he would do no such…

Editor's Choice

The Vancouver City Council recently approved plans for a new food cart pod and assisted living facility near Vancouver Mall.

Vancouver council OKs Van Mall mixed-use development plan; food cart pod, taproom, assisted living facility to be built in phases

The Vancouver City Council approved a mixed-use master plan last week for a long-awaited food cart pod in the Van Mall neighborhood, as well as…

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Health

FILE - In this Nov. 2, 2013 file photo, various cuts of beef and pork are displayed for sale in the meat department at a discount market in Arlington, Va. (AP Photo/J.

More beans and less red meat: Nutrition experts weigh in on US dietary guidelines

Americans should eat more beans, peas and lentils and cut back on red and processed meats and starchy vegetables, all while continuing to limit added…

Life

FILE - In this Dec. 14, 2023 photo provided by NOIRLab, meteors from the Geminid meteor shower streak across the sky above the Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO), a program of the National Science Foundation's NOIRLab, located about 56 miles (90 kilometers) southwest of Tucson in the Tohono O'odham Nation.

How to catch the Geminids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year

among the few major meteor showers to come from asteroids — peak on Friday. It’s one of the year’s last chances to see fireballs in…

Nation / World

Firefighters battle the Franklin Fire in Malibu, Calif., on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2024.

Malibu wildfire grows, thousands remain evacuated but firefighters get a break from improving weather

Officials in Southern California reported significant overnight growth of a wind-driven wildfire that has forced thousands of people, including celebrities like Cher and Dick Van Dyke, from…

High School Sports – September 2024

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Dec.

Editorial Cartoons for the Week of Dec. 9, 2024

Camden: DOGE has echoes of Reagan effort

Letter: Right-wing hypocrisy is exhausting

Letter: Fear of immigrants has long history

In Our View: Senators must assert nation’s trust in vaccines

Should historical markers be reviewed and updated?

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