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Vancouver police shot and killed a man Wednesday night in the parking lot of the east Vancouver Safeway. (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian)
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Vancouver police fatally shoot a man who physically attacked an officer

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

Law enforcement officers respond to the scene of a shooting in Camas on Nov. 14.

‘There’s power in information’: Camas police chief holds forum after shooting suspect’s release on bond stokes fear

When a Camas man was released from jail after posting bail, his former neighborhood was still reeling from the police standoff and gunfire that erupted there two weeks prior. Neighbors…
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Courts & Crime
An 18-wheeler sits at Rose Way Industrial Park in Woodland.

Port of Woodland properties are all booked up, but port isn’t stopping there

The Port of Woodland signed leases with four new companies in the last two months, filling port properties completely — until brand new spaces come on line, that is.
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Business
The city of Vancouver passed its 2025-26 budget, which includes a series of budget cuts and new taxes.

Vancouver City Council’s $2.1B budget includes new taxes, cuts to nearly every department

After six months of tense discussion over how to fill a $43 million deficit, the Vancouver City Council this week passed a $2.1 billion budget for the next two years.
Clark County News
Vancouver-based real estate developer Provision Group proposed a 37-lot single-family housing development just south of Northeast 88th Street in Northeast Hazel Dell.

37-lot subdivision proposed for Hazel Dell but development down overall in Clark County

A Vancouver-based real estate developer has proposed a 37-lot single-family housing development just south of Northeast 88th Street in Northeast Hazel Dell.
Clark County News

Clark County

Clark Public Utilities commissioners passed their electric, generating and water systems budgets for 2025, sparing customers a rate increase after last year's 14.5 percent overall increase.

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

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

Business

A driver passes a fence and caution tape that prevent entry into a former surface parking lot near the new parking center at The Waterfront Vancouver in September. A new commercial parking tax may dissuade people from visiting the waterfront, said Barry Cain, president of Gramor Development, which owns the new parking garage.

Kiggins owner and waterfront developer say new Vancouver taxes will drive away customers

Movie theater and parking lot owners are frustrated with the city of Vancouver’s decision to tax customers.

Northwest

Marc Anthony Bru, 43, of Vancouver, pictured at the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. He is scheduled to be sentenced Jan. 8 after a federal judge found him guilty of seven charges. (Photo contributed by the U.S.

The WA residents charged for attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6

More than 1,500 people have been prosecuted in the nearly four years since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Donald Trump…

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Sports

Varsity360: The Final Countdown to the State Football Championshipsvideo icon

Camas and Seton Catholic are headed to Husky Stadium to play for state football championships this weekend. The Columbian's Micah Rice and Will Denner preview…

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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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…

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Health

Clinical supervisor Brook Vejo, center, talks with the Youth Mobile Crisis Intervention team during a December 2019 meeting at Catholic Community Services in Vancouver.

Report from Children’s Alliance finds Washington ranks 48th nationally in youth mental health

Depression and anxiety among youth has surged across the state, according to a recently released report. But resources to support adolescent mental health remain insufficient.

Nation / World

Rescue workers continue to search, Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, for Elizabeth Pollard, who is believed to have disappeared in a sinkhole while looking for her cat, in Marguerite, Pa. (AP Photo/Gene J.

Police say searchers don’t expect to find woman in sinkhole alive

The search for a woman who is believed to have fallen into a sinkhole in western Pennsylvania has become a recovery effort after two treacherous…

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Editorial Cartoons for the Week of Dec. 2, 2024

In Our View: Biden pardon erodes trust in justice system

Daley-Harris: You can make a difference

Abcarian: Welcome to Cameo, land of has-beens

Letter: Biden makes things worse

Should historical markers be reviewed and updated?

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