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Christina Brown of Vancouver fills a box with groceries while checking out at the Vancouver Grocery Outlet. The store eliminated single-use plastic bags on March 1 and now offers boxes for customers who did not bring reusable bags. “I’m pretty glad,” Brown said.

Clark County grocers prep for plastic bag ban

Christina Brown of Vancouver fills a box with groceries while checking out at the Vancouver Grocery Outlet. The store eliminated single-use plastic bags on March 1 and now offers boxes for customers who did not bring reusable bags. “I’m pretty glad,” Brown said.

March 19, 2019, 6:01am Business

Gary McLachlan patiently waited for his groceries to be loaded into a reusable bag at the Vancouver Grocery Outlet at 5800 N.E. Fourth Plain Blvd. Read story

Vancouver-based Banfield releases social responsibility report

March 18, 2019, 6:09pm Business Briefs

Banfield's charitable arm, the Banfield Foundation, released its 2018 Banfield Foundation Impact Report, detailing how the foundation has made a difference in the lives of pets and their families, thanks to the support of generous donors. Read story

New town houses are pictured at Fisher’s View in east Vancouver in late 2018.

Clark County housing market slips after February snow storms

New town houses are pictured at Fisher’s View in east Vancouver in late 2018.

March 18, 2019, 5:20pm Business

The Clark County housing market saw an overall cool-down in February, with most market numbers showing a decline. According to local real estate agent Mike Lamb, inclement weather was a major contributor to the chilly market. Read story

Phlebotomist Sotheary Chet, center, works with platelet donor John Reinhardt of Battle Ground at the American Red Cross Blood Donor Center in Vancouver. Reinhardt, a regular platelet donor, decided to watch “Crazy Rich Asians” over the two-hour donation process. Platelets, which have a shelf life of five days, are mainly used for trauma injuries.

Working in Clark County: Sotheary Chet, phlebotomist with the American Red Cross

Phlebotomist Sotheary Chet, center, works with platelet donor John Reinhardt of Battle Ground at the American Red Cross Blood Donor Center in Vancouver. Reinhardt, a regular platelet donor, decided to watch “Crazy Rich Asians” over the two-hour donation process. Platelets, which have a shelf life of five days, are mainly used for trauma injuries.

March 18, 2019, 6:02am Business

When longtime Red Cross phlebotomist Sotheary Chet, 61, was first exposed to the historic nonprofit organization, it wasn’t because she was applying for a job. Read story

Motorists drive past businesses along a stretch of Highway 99 in Hazel Dell, shown using a telephoto lens that compresses the view. The Highway 99 corridor is considered to be an economic development priority by the Clark County Council, which is part of why the area was selected as one of the county’s seven Opportunity Zones, a new federal designation aimed at encouraging local investment.

Opportunity Zones have potential to bring investment, jobs to Clark County

Motorists drive past businesses along a stretch of Highway 99 in Hazel Dell, shown using a telephoto lens that compresses the view. The Highway 99 corridor is considered to be an economic development priority by the Clark County Council, which is part of why the area was selected as one of the county’s seven Opportunity Zones, a new federal designation aimed at encouraging local investment.

March 17, 2019, 6:02am Business

The AC Hotel by Marriott will be the first project to break ground as part of the Port of Vancouver’s Terminal 1 development, but it holds a second distinction: it’s the first project in Clark County to make use of one of the county’s seven new Opportunity Zones. Read story

Interim Nautilus CEO M. Carl Johnson III joined the exercise equipment brand’s board in 2011. He’s standing next to the Bowflex Max Trainer M8, left, which is one of the machines that is linked to a product that may be essential to the company’s future success: the Max Intelligence digital platform. At right is a Schwinn Classic Cruiser stationary bicycle.

A fresh course for Nautilus

Interim Nautilus CEO M. Carl Johnson III joined the exercise equipment brand’s board in 2011. He’s standing next to the Bowflex Max Trainer M8, left, which is one of the machines that is linked to a product that may be essential to the company’s future success: the Max Intelligence digital platform. At right is a Schwinn Classic Cruiser stationary bicycle.

March 17, 2019, 6:02am Business

Nautilus has “terrific trademarks,” says M. Carl Johnson III, its new leader. Ensuring consumers believe that too is one of his goals over the next year or so. Read story

Colleen Conrad, owner of Dog Gone Clean, left, and Connie Skinner, owner of Mind Your Manners Dog Center, revisit the Holly Park Shopping Center. A Jan. 19 fire temporarily closed their businesses, forcing each of them to incur costs and develop recovery plans.

Businesses affected by Hazel Dell strip mall fire beginning to rebuild

Colleen Conrad, owner of Dog Gone Clean, left, and Connie Skinner, owner of Mind Your Manners Dog Center, revisit the Holly Park Shopping Center. A Jan. 19 fire temporarily closed their businesses, forcing each of them to incur costs and develop recovery plans.

March 16, 2019, 6:05am Clark County Business

Colleen Conrad could only sit and wait as, in the distance, smoke billowed from her business. An employee had called her to say that the building had caught fire, but she was stuck at a stoplight down the street. Read story

Budtenders at Sticky’s Pot Shop wait for customers to arrive for a closing sale in July following a court decision that led to the store’s closing.

Sticky’s pot shop owner to pay county $112,500

Budtenders at Sticky’s Pot Shop wait for customers to arrive for a closing sale in July following a court decision that led to the store’s closing.

March 15, 2019, 5:53pm Business

Emerald Enterprises, the owner of now-closed Sticky’s Pot Shop, has reached an agreement to pay fines stemming from defying Clark County’s ban on recreational marijuana retailing in unincorporated parts of the county. Read story

Northwest Pipe CEO outlines prospects

March 15, 2019, 6:00am Business

Vancouver-based Northwest Pipe Co. emerged from 2018 with a record-high backlog of project orders and expects plenty of bidding opportunities to continue to boost its revenue in 2019, CEO Scott Montross told stock analysts Thursday in the company’s fourth quarter investor conference call. Read story

Tayler Smith of Papa Murphy’s sprinkles cheese while creating a pizza in 2016 at Papa Murphy’s on East Mill Plain Boulevard.

Papa Murphy’s Q4 investor report: Slice of good news on Pi Day

Tayler Smith of Papa Murphy’s sprinkles cheese while creating a pizza in 2016 at Papa Murphy’s on East Mill Plain Boulevard.

March 14, 2019, 6:14pm Business

Papa Murphy’s released its investor report for the fourth quarter of 2018 on Thursday — coincidentally Pi Day — and the results were modestly good news for the take-and-bake pizza chain, which is headquartered in Vancouver. Read story