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Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira arrives at Kazan International Airport the day before BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

Putin hosts Global South leaders at BRICS summit meant to counterbalance Western clout

Brazilian Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira arrives at Kazan International Airport the day before BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia, Monday, Oct. 21, 2024.

October 22, 2024, 7:40am Business

China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and other world leaders arrived Tuesday in the Russian city of Kazan for a summit of the BRICS bloc of developing economies that the Kremlin hopes to turn into a rallying point for defying Western influence in global affairs. Read story

FILE - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia, July 30, 2024.

Yellen says isolationism ‘made America and the world worse off’ in speech to global finance leaders

FILE - Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during a news conference in Philadelphia, July 30, 2024.

October 22, 2024, 7:37am Business

Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is telling world financial leaders that the U.S. economy has grown stronger because the Biden administration rejected isolationism, offering a barely veiled criticism of former President Donald Trump’s policies two weeks before the U.S. election. Read story

FILE - Lina Khan, then the nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks a confirmation hearing, April 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

FTC’s rule banning fake online reviews goes into effect

FILE - Lina Khan, then the nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), speaks a confirmation hearing, April 21, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

October 22, 2024, 7:34am Business

A federal rule banning fake online reviews is now in effect. Read story

The Columbian Files
PacifiCorp, which operates several dams on the Lewis River including Merwin Dam, is planning a new transmission line through east Clark County.

PacifiCorp plans to run high-voltage line from Swift Dam through east Clark County into Oregon

The Columbian Files
PacifiCorp, which operates several dams on the Lewis River including Merwin Dam, is planning a new transmission line through east Clark County.

October 22, 2024, 6:08am Business

Portland power company PacifiCorp plans to run a new high voltage transmission line through east Clark County, the company confirmed last week. Read story

The Subway on Eighth Street in downtown Vancouver is among those that have closed across Clark County. The store appears to have been abandoned, according to a lawsuit filed by its landlord.

Six Vancouver Subway stores appear abandoned as liquidation looms

The Subway on Eighth Street in downtown Vancouver is among those that have closed across Clark County. The store appears to have been abandoned, according to a lawsuit filed by its landlord.

October 22, 2024, 6:08am Business

Six Clark County Subway locations that closed abruptly this summer still look operational. Advertisements cover the windows. Furniture, ovens and counters sit inside untouched. But on the heels of the franchise owner’s bankruptcy, one Vancouver landlord says the stores have been abandoned. Read story

The new Trader Joe's off 162nd Avenue in east Vancouver is opening Friday.

New east Vancouver Trader Joe’s will open its doors Friday

The new Trader Joe's off 162nd Avenue in east Vancouver is opening Friday.

October 21, 2024, 5:30pm Business

California grocer Trader Joe’s announced its new east Vancouver location will open Friday. Read story

FILE - American flags hang from the New York Stock Exchange, at left, on Oct. 16, 2024, in New York.

Stock market today: Wall Street pulls back from its records

FILE - American flags hang from the New York Stock Exchange, at left, on Oct. 16, 2024, in New York.

October 21, 2024, 2:22pm Business

U.S. stocks edged back from their all-time highs Monday as some of the steam came out of Wall Street’s long, record-breaking rally. Read story

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump hands an order to a customer at a drive-thru window during a campaign stop at a McDonald&#039;s, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, in Feasterville-Trevose, Pa.

McDonald’s agreed to Trump event but insists it isn’t endorsing a presidential candidate

Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump hands an order to a customer at a drive-thru window during a campaign stop at a McDonald&#039;s, Sunday, Oct. 20, 2024, in Feasterville-Trevose, Pa.

October 21, 2024, 12:53pm Business

McDonald’s Corp. agreed to host former President Donald Trump at a Pennsylvania store over the weekend but stressed that it isn’t endorsing a candidate in the U.S. presidential race. Read story