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October 24, 2024
Camas Mayor Steve Hogan speaks to community members during the Camas Police Department's 2024 awards ceremony on May 23, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Hogan calls for new revenues to fund police positions

Camas Mayor Steve Hogan is calling on Camas City Council members to approve new revenue sources that will keep a “status quo” budget for the City in 2025 and 2026, and also provide enough revenues to hire three new Camas Police Department supervisors.

October 17, 2024
Candidates running for Washington's 17th Legislative District, Position 2 seat, Terri Niles, a Democratic candidate from Vancouver (left) and Washougal Mayor David Stuebe (right), who is running as a Republican, attend a League of Women Voters of Clark County candidate forum at the Camas Public Library, Saturday, Oct. 5, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

17th District candidates face off at Camas forum

Washougal Mayor David Stuebe and longtime Vancouver nurse Terri Niles — candidates vying for the state’s open Legislative District 17, Position 2 seat — recently faced off during a League of Women Voters of Clark County candidate forum held Saturday, Oct. 5, at the Camas Public Library.

October 17, 2024

Settlement will fund vape sensors in Camas schools

Vaping inside Camas schools is set to get even tougher thanks to a class-action lawsuit settlement with the electronic cigarette maker, JUUL, which has paid more than $1 billion to at least 45 states for marketing its addictive, high-nicotine vaping products to underage teenagers.

October 10, 2024
John Svilarich (left) and his lawyer, Vancouver defense attorney Jon McMullen (right) appear in Judge John Fairgrieve’s Clark County Superior Court courtroom on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024. (Screenshot by Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Svilarich makes first appearance in Superior Court

Camas City Councilman John Svilarich, 66, who is facing second-degree felony assault and reckless endangerment charges stemming from an Aug. 31 argument with a fisherman along the Washougal River Greenway trail in Camas, made his first appearance in Clark County Superior Court Wednesday, Oct. 2.

October 3, 2024
A sign welcomes visitors to Skyridge Middle School in Camas on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record)

Washougal man arrested for unsafe gun storage

Camas police have referred an 11-year-old boy to Clark County’s juvenile prosecuting attorney following an incident involving “multiple firearms and a knife” outside Skyridge Middle School Tuesday, Sept. 24.

October 3, 2024
Camas residents Dawn (right) and John Hendricks, of Camas, play pickleball on a shared-use tennis-pickleball court at Crown Park in Camas,  Monday, Aug. 12, 2024. (Kelly Moyer/Post-Record files)

Crown Park neighbors frustrated by ‘really loud’ pickleball courts

Following a flood of noise and livability complaints from residents who live near Crown Park’s shared-use tennis-pickleball courts, Camas city officials and parks commissioners are rethinking how they might accommodate pickleball, one of the nation’s fastest growing sports.