September 22, 2014, 5:00pm Business
Clark County's economy expanded by 5,800 jobs in the 12 months ending in August, the region's labor economist reported Tuesday, posting a growth rate of 4.2 percent and recording a preliminary unemployment rate of 7 percent. Read story
September 19, 2014, 5:00pm Business
The Washington state agency that manages billions of dollars for public employee pensions and retirement accounts has expanded its investment choices to include consideration of the risks of global climate change. Read story
September 18, 2014, 5:00pm Business
The companies seeking to build the Northwest's largest oil-by-rail terminal at the Port of Vancouver have thrown a counterpunch at the developer who argues the terminal will severely curtail his plan to construct a $1.3 billion commercial/residential redevelopment of the city's waterfront. Read story
September 17, 2014, 5:00pm Business
A market analysis commissioned by Tesoro Corp. and Savage Companies says a plan to redevelop Vancouver's waterfront "is not viable as conceived," which makes arguments that the companies' proposed oil-by-rail terminal will negatively impact it "irrelevant." Read story
September 17, 2014, 5:00pm Business
State investment boards in Washington and Oregon are "bankrolling" oil, coal and gas infrastructure, a new analysis asserts, despite public calls by those states' governors to shift to renewables to fight global climate change. Read story
September 14, 2014, 5:00pm Business
Port of Camas-Washougal commissioners on Tuesday will discuss whether to make a statement about the movement of oil by rail in Clark County and Washington state. Read story
September 10, 2014, 5:00pm Business
Northwest Packing Co. and the Port of Vancouver appear no closer to resolving their ongoing landlord-tenant dispute over how much rent the food processor should pay. Read story
September 8, 2014, 5:00pm Business
Oil terminal proposal at Port of Vancouver continues to generate opposition Read story
September 8, 2014, 5:00pm Business
The question of who got the upper hand -- labor or management -- in a recent contract agreement that ended two years of strife between union dockworkers and grain export terminal operators may never be fully answered. Read story
September 6, 2014, 5:00pm Business
Add yet another player to the multifaceted battle over whether Vancouver will make room for the Northwest's largest oil transfer terminal: Heartland LLC, a Seattle-based real estate advisory and investment firm. Read story
