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Serial killer Warren Forrest leaves the courtroom after jury selection in his cold-case murder trial at the Clark County Courthouse on Jan. 24, 2023.

Cold-case team seeks to link trace evidence to suspected victim of serial killer Warren Forrest

A reestablished team of Clark County cold-case investigators is hoping to link trace evidence to one of serial killer Warren Forrestā€™s suspected victims from 50 years ago.
11 mins ago
Courts & Crime
Vancouver Housing Authority is expanding its affordable housing portfolio with the Cascara Apartments in the Van Mall neighborhood.

Vancouver Housing Authority buying 98-unit apartment building to expand affordable housing

The Vancouver Housing Authority plans to buy a 98-unit apartment building still under construction in the Van Mall neighborhood to expand the cityā€™s affordable housing stock.
46 mins ago
Clark County Business
Third-grader Logan Kitchens, left, works with teacher Brooke Mason on Monday morning while using the MagicSchool AI program at the Washington School for the Deaf.

Learning gets magical with AI at the Washington School for the Deaf

Kindergarten and first-grade students took turns Monday guessing what pie flavor an artificial intelligence school program was thinking about by asking its chatbot about the pieā€™s characteristics.
Schools
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…
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Minnehaha house fire proves fatal

Firefighters found a man dead in a house fire early Saturday morning in Vancouverā€™s Minnehaha neighborhood.

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

The Washington state Capitol building in Olympia, on Feb. 7, 2024.

Lawmakers return to Olympia for meetings ahead of 2025 session

Child care affordability, crime trends, environmental protections, access to addiction treatment and housing costs. These are some of the issues on Washington lawmakersā€™ agenda this…

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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…

Editor's Choice

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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Health

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 donā€™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 PĆ©rez’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 10, followed by ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Conclave’

Jacques Audiardā€™s audacious musical ā€œEmilia PĆ©rez,ā€ about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery to become a woman, led nominations to the 82nd…

Nation / World

A humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) jumps out of the Pacific Ocean's waters in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico on March 14, 2018. Despite a surge of violent crimes in popular tourist areas such as Los Cabos and Cancun, tourism is Mexico's third largest source of foreign exchange. In 2017 the country hit a new record -- 39.3 million tourists who generated $21 billion in business.

Unexpected visits are turning California into a humpback whale hangout

Shortly after noon Sunday, the waters eight miles off the coast of Newport Beach were broken by an unusual, if not majestic, sight.

High School Sports – September 2024

High School Sports – September 2024

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Opinion

Dec.

Editorial Cartoons for the Week of Dec. 9, 2024

In Our View: Cheers & Jeers: ā€˜A normal lifeā€™; depleted funds

Feldman: Court wonā€™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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