Clark County Business

Students Camilla Arelano, left, and Leslie Robles play with toy diggers while exploring career options at the Dozer Day Career Fair.

Clark County high school students get close-up look at trades during Dozer Day Career Fair

October 6, 2023, 6:50pm Business

Hundreds of local high school students gathered at the Clark Event Center at the Fairgrounds on Friday to get a hands-on look at what a future career in the construction industry — a sector that is said to be facing a workforce crisis — might entail. Read story

Lifeguard Daniela Valderrana, 19, watches over the pool at Marshall Community Center. A nationwide lifeguard shortage has pushed Vancouver's pools to cut hours and limit their offerings for swim lessons.

Vancouver pools cut hours, swim lessons as fewer apply to be lifeguards

October 6, 2023, 6:03am Business

A nationwide lifeguard shortage has pushed Vancouver’s pools to cut hours and limit their offerings for swim lessons. Read story

Passing cars on Mill Plain Boulevard honked in support of the health care Kaiser health care workers picketing at Kaiser Permanente's Cascade Park Medical Office Wednesday morning.

Kaiser health care workers in Vancouver join thousands across the country on picket lines

October 4, 2023, 11:07am Business

Unionized health care workers picketed outside of Kaiser Permanente’s Cascade Park Medical Office this morning, marking the start of the largest health care strike in U.S. history. Read story

Adam Young, a bartender at Grains of Wrath Brewing, pours one of the house beers in 2018.

Washougal breweries launch ‘passport’ program

October 3, 2023, 4:48pm Business

Lori Reed, the owner of the Washougal-based graphic design firm Reed Creative, has been thinking a lot about the way McMenamins, the Pacific Northwest chain of pubs, restaurants, historic hotels and movie theaters, encourages customers to visit its more than 60 locations. Read story

A trio of trucks travel to and from the Zimmerly gravel pit near Washougal.

Lawsuits over Columbia Gorge gravel pit slowing after court denies owners’ request for review

October 3, 2023, 6:03am Business

Nearly half a decade of lawsuits surrounding a controversial gravel pit east of Washougal are slowing as even more governing entities deny resuming operations at the site. Read story

Officials ask feds for $600 million to help pay for new I-5 Bridge

The Interstate Bridge Replacement Program applied for $600 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation Mega Grant, or 10 percent of the new Interstate 5 Bridge's expected cost of between $5 billion and $7.5 billion, with the likeliest outcome being about $6 billion.

October 3, 2023, 6:03am Business

With $3.5 billion committed to the Interstate Bridge Replacement Program from the state and the authorization of tolling on the Interstate 5 Bridge, program officials are turning to the federal government for the final $2.5 billion. Read story

C-Tran’s new ‘Red Vine’ service opens early and under budget

A cake replica of the C-Tran bus is cut and distributed. Cake was also served when the Vine on Fourth Plain was opened in January 2017, but due to the sub-freezing temperatures the cake was frozen, said Vancouver Mayor Anne McEnerny-Ogle.

September 30, 2023, 8:43pm Business

Against the backdrop of autumn leaves changing from green to red, dozens of people gathered Saturday to eat licorice and celebrate the opening of C-Tran’s second bus rapid transit line, The Vine, and the Mill Plain Transit Center. Read story