Climate change report shows it’s all or nothing
A new report on the impacts of human-caused climate change across the United States shows current efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for climate change risks…
A new report on the impacts of human-caused climate change across the United States shows current efforts to lower greenhouse gas emissions and prepare for climate change risks…
Over the next few weeks, elected Camas city officials will tackle the issue of what to do in the face of an unexpected — but not altogether unimagined — revenue shortfall.
With just a few weeks until the Nov. 7 election that will select mayors in both Camas and Washougal and could alter the makeup of the Camas City Council, our…
If you’ve been hearing that COVID is back, that’s mostly true. COVID infections and hospitalizations have indeed been on the rise…
As negotiators for the Camas teachers’ union and the Camas School District sit down at the bargaining table this week, we’ve been mulling over the history of union…
If you didn’t know the history of Camas’ public swimming pool — which city officials decommissioned in 2018 after reports showed the 1954 pool was failing and would likely cost millions to restore — and you happened to attend this week’s Camas City Council meeting, you could be forgiven for thinking Camas officials have been shirking their responsibilities when it comes to satisfying their constituents’ thirst for a new public pool.
House Republicans have not been shy about their political campaign to smear Americans saddled with higher education debt as “elites” looking for a handout.
Camas City Council members agreed this week to consider a proposal that the city becomes an “income-tax-free municipality” and asked city staff to collect information and place the item on a future Council workshop agenda.
117,345 — the average number of Americans shot by guns each year. 40,620 — the average number of Americans killed by gun violence each year. 7,957 — the average number of U.S. children 17 and younger shot by guns each year.1,839 — the average number of U.S. children 17 and younger killed by guns each year. 547 — the average number of U.S. women killed by gun violence perpetrated by their husband or male dating partner. 132 — the number of mass shootings that have taken place in the U.S. so far this year. 209 — the number of people killed in U.S. mass shootings in 2023.
Homelessness “is an issue that we’re going to have to continue to deal with,” Washougal Mayor David Stuebe told members of the Washougal City Council during a recent Council workshop.