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WA businesses preparing for new retail sales taxes to hit consumers Oct 1
Washington businesses are preparing for new retail sales taxes under ESSB 5814, set to take effect Oct. 1, impacting services from advertising to IT and…
Letter: Mayor Anne’s power grab
…hauna Walters argues Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle has used C-TRAN to advance light rail at the expense of Clark County’s smaller cities and taxpayers.
Letter: ‘Public safety is a must-vote Brad Benton’
Ridgefield resident Carley Meuchel urges support for Brad Benton for the Charter Review Commission, citing public safety, CCSO funding, and staffing as priorities.
Letter: ‘If they have not compromised in the 15 years of planning the bridge, they never will’
Bob Mattila of Brush Prairie says the I-5 Bridge replacement is unworkable due to unresolved height conflicts and urges expanding I-205 or considering lift b…
CCSO responds to a disturbance with a weapon north of Washougal
CCSO and assisting agencies arrested Justin M. Bryden after he allegedly threatened a paving crew with an AR-style rifle north of Washougal.
Opinion: TriMet & C-TRAN – Who pays versus who gets service
Rep. John Ley argues TriMet’s financial mismanagement and C-TRAN’s funding model unfairly burden Clark County taxpayers, especially small cities and rural residents, while Vancouver receives most o…
POLL: Should Clark County’s smaller cities pull out of the C-TRAN Board of Directors and refuse to help fund light rail maintenance & operations?
This week’s poll asks if Clark County’s smaller cities should pull out of the C-TRAN Board and stop funding light rail maintenance and operations.
Opinion: ‘Society should have offered this killer psychological help’
Lars Larson argues society endorsed delusion instead of offering psychological help to Minneapolis church killer Robin Westman, leaving children dead and families devastated.
US Health and Human Services agency orders states to strip gender from sex ed
The Trump administration ordered states to remove references to gender identity from sex education programs or risk losing millions in federal funding through the PREP program.
City, tribal leaders break ground on affordable housing project in downtown Vancouver
…opers Wednesday to break ground on a six-story affordable housing project in Vancouver’s Waterfront Gateway District that will include 95 units.
League of Women Voters presents panel on Clark County Charter
…host a Sept. 8 panel at Vancouver Community Library to discuss the Clark County Charter, featuring four panelists who helped draft it.
Opinion: End public camping in Vancouver
Amy Harris argues Vancouver must end public camping, pointing to Portland’s failures and San Francisco’s new enforcement approach as lessons to protect quality of life.