July 12, 2020, 6:06am Business
Business owner advocate Eric Sawyer began organizing the weekly Zoom calls with an initial group of about 18 local restaurateurs, most of whom he knew through his work at the Vancouver consulting firm BBSI. The roundtable discussions started out fairly broad, he said, because nobody had a good handle on… Read story
July 10, 2020, 6:01am Business
It's been less than two months since Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle floated the idea of bringing "parklets" -- street parking spaces converted into outdoor restaurant seating areas -- to Vancouver, and the program has already led to four downtown installations. Read story
July 1, 2020, 11:37am Business
Vancouver-based United Grain Corporation announced Tuesday that it has received clearance from Clark County Public Health and resumed operations following a three-day shutdown due to COVID-19. Read story
June 30, 2020, 6:02am Clark County Business
Wave 1 was when the gyms closed. Wave 2 came when the layoffs began. Wave 3 arrived after the stimulus checks went out — and that was all before the start of the sunny weather that typically ushers in the busy summer season. Read story
June 29, 2020, 5:08pm Business
Vancouver-based United Grain Corporation has suspended operations at its grain export terminal at the Port of Vancouver after two of its on-site staff tested positive for COVID-19, the company announced Monday. Read story
June 28, 2020, 5:12am Business
Clark County is moving closer to Phase 3 of Washington’s Safe Start reopening plan, and area movie theaters are banking on the jump happening sooner rather than later. Local, independent theaters and larger corporate chains have all announced plans to reopen by mid-July. Read story
June 20, 2020, 12:42pm Latest News
Pandora Hertel (Vancouver Police Department) Update: Pandora Hertel was located Sunday. Previously: The Vancouver Police Department is requesting the public’s help in locating a missing 16-year-old girl. Pandora (P.J.) Hertel left home at approximately 2 a.m. Saturday, according to a police news release. She is described as… Read story
June 20, 2020, 5:17am Business
Apartment rental prices in Vancouver have remained relatively flat during the first few months of the COVID-19 pandemic, with median prices for most apartment sizes dropping by negligible amounts, according to the latest report from the online service Apartment List. Read story
June 13, 2020, 6:02am Clark County News
C-Tran and the Washington State Department of Transportation will start construction this weekend on a project that will create a bus-only lane on the left shoulder of a 5-mile stretch of southbound Interstate 5 through Vancouver. Read story
June 9, 2020, 10:17am Business
Printer and PC maker HP Inc. has submitted a preliminary application to the city of Vancouver detailing its plans for a new corporate campus at Section 30, the site of the former English Pit gravel mine. The site is directly north of the Columbia Tech Center, where HP’s current Vancouver… Read story
