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An OK Cannabis sign is displayed with marijuana products at Main Street Marijuana in Vancouver. The industry-led program randomly pulls products from store shelves to test for pesticides and other contaminants.

Main Street Marijuana joins voluntary industry testing program

An OK Cannabis sign is displayed with marijuana products at Main Street Marijuana in Vancouver. The industry-led program randomly pulls products from store shelves to test for pesticides and other contaminants.

July 19, 2019, 6:04am Business

Recent customers at Main Street Marijuana in Vancouver’s Uptown Village neighborhood have likely noticed a new set of signs prominently displayed in some of the store’s display cases. They’re hard to miss: a giant red OK logo on a black background. Read story

A for-sale sign in front of a home in Felida in May. Sales and listings cooled off a bit in June, according to the latest RMLS Market Action report.

June sales housing market in Clark County down from both May, June 2018

A for-sale sign in front of a home in Felida in May. Sales and listings cooled off a bit in June, according to the latest RMLS Market Action report.

July 18, 2019, 6:05am Business

Clark County’s housing market cooled in June, with nearly every sales number down both from May and from June 2018, according to the latest Market Action report from the Regional Multiple Listing Service. Read story

Vancouver grocery workers planning to hold strike vote

July 17, 2019, 4:27pm Business

The local chapter of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union is planning to hold a series of meetings for a strike authorization vote in the Vancouver area at the end of July. UFCW Local 555 created a Facebook event inviting all Albertsons, Fred Meyer, QFC and Safeway union members… Read story

Port of Vancouver first stop for new cargo ship

July 16, 2019, 8:21pm Business

Vancouver became the first official destination for a new liquid bulk cargo ship, the Intermezzo, when it arrived at the Port of Vancouver on July 11. Read story

Block 10, seen here in 2016, has remained undeveloped since the early 1990s, but Holland Partner Group is moving forward on a plan to built a 154-foot-tall office and residential tower on the site.

Block 10 plan includes housing, retail, office space in Vancouver tower

Block 10, seen here in 2016, has remained undeveloped since the early 1990s, but Holland Partner Group is moving forward on a plan to built a 154-foot-tall office and residential tower on the site.

July 16, 2019, 5:06pm Business

Hot on the heels of the groundbreaking ceremony for the Vancouvercenter’s fourth tower, developer Holland Partner Group is already moving forward on its next big project for downtown Vancouver: a new office and residential tower on Block 10, which would also serve as a new headquarters for the company. Read story

Industrial warehouse planned for Fruit Valley

July 16, 2019, 6:01am Business

A developer has submitted plans for a 192,000-square-foot, light-industrial warehouse on a 10-acre site in the Fruit Valley area. The project, Portside Vancouver, would be a tilt-up concrete warehouse surrounded by a parking lot. Read story

The proposed project from Kirkland Development would redevelop the site of Joe’s Crab Shack and Who Song and Larry’s, creating a mixed-use project with apartments, office and retail space and a possible hotel. It would also rebuild and widen the section of the Columbia Renaissance Trail that runs along the south side of the restaurants, which has been closed since 2007 due to a deteriorating foundation.

Joe’s Crab Shack, Who Song and Larry’s may get reprieve

The proposed project from Kirkland Development would redevelop the site of Joe’s Crab Shack and Who Song and Larry’s, creating a mixed-use project with apartments, office and retail space and a possible hotel. It would also rebuild and widen the section of the Columbia Renaissance Trail that runs along the south side of the restaurants, which has been closed since 2007 due to a deteriorating foundation.

July 15, 2019, 5:48pm Business

Kirkland Development has submitted a pre-application packet that sheds new light on a planned mixed-use project on Columbia Way just east of the Interstate 5 Bridge, at the current site of the restaurants Joe’s Crab Shack and Who Song and Larry’s. Read story

Simon Rommel, 15, left, completes a walk-around of the Wake´s Driving School car before sliding behind the wheel.

Working in Clark County: Larry Bowman, driving instructor at Wake’s Driving School

Simon Rommel, 15, left, completes a walk-around of the Wake´s Driving School car before sliding behind the wheel.

July 15, 2019, 6:02am Business

Many of us can recall preparing for our first driving test as a teenager. It’s often a cocktail of excitement and agony — why, oh why, our teenage-selves lament, can’t we just jump in the car and go? More tests? Read story

Clark Public Utilities.

Changing of the guard at Clark Public Utilities

Clark Public Utilities.

July 14, 2019, 6:00am Business

Clark Public Utilities’ emphasis on customer service started more than a quarter-century ago, during a push to deregulate electricity. Read story

SP&S 539, with its front smokebox door removed, sits in Battle Ground in this August 2006 photo. The locomotive was moved the next year to Arizona, and now will be returned to be on display at the Port of Kalama.

SP&S 539 come full circle: Port of Kalama buys steam locomotive

SP&S 539, with its front smokebox door removed, sits in Battle Ground in this August 2006 photo. The locomotive was moved the next year to Arizona, and now will be returned to be on display at the Port of Kalama.

July 12, 2019, 4:02pm Business

A steam locomotive and its tender that sat in Vancouver’s Esther Short Park for 40 years will be returned to the Pacific Northwest and displayed at the Port of Kalama after port commissioners agreed this week to purchase it. Read story