WASHOUGAL — Royce Jones is living proof that it’s never too late to find your niche.
In the past week, Clark County residents have donated thousands of pounds of food, and businesses have dished up hundreds of free meals to help neighbors affected by the suspension of a federal food assistance program.
Vancouver-based nonprofit health system PeaceHealth cut 2.5 percent of its 16,000 employees, executives said in an email to employees Tuesday.
Water temperatures in many of Clark County’s rivers and streams, especially in urban areas, continue to rise, according to the county’s most recent stream health report. That was the message Marlena Milosevich Butler of the county’s public works department shared at a water pollution symposium Tuesday.
No sightings of immigration agents have been reported at Clark County postsecondary schools, but protocols are in place just in case.
Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program spending plummeted at the Vancouver Farmers Market Nov. 1, just as funding for the program ran dry.
Detection of measles in Oregon wastewater has health officials here on alert.
Washington businesses would need to shoulder roughly $700 million in additional taxes in a few years unless the projected finances of the state’s unemployment insurance fund improve.
Watershed Alliance of Southwest Washington will host a tree planting event from 9 a.m. to noon Nov. 9 at the Taiwan Semiconductor campus just west of Lacamas Lake in Camas.