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Clark County News

Health advisory lifted for Vancouver Lake use

September 20, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

Clark County Public Health has lifted a health advisory for recreational use at Vancouver Lake after lab results indicate cyanobacteria -- known commonly as blue-green algae -- is no longer a threat to the health of people and pets. Read story

Fire destroys Orchards-area mobile home

September 20, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

The fire was reported about 8:15 p.m in a mobile home in Sifton Gardens Mobile Estates, 5900 N.E. 131st Ave., south of Fourth Plain Road. Read story

Tesoro-Savage plans oil terminal presentation

September 20, 2013, 5:00pm Business

VancouverThe companies proposing to build an energy distribution terminal at the Port of Vancouver will host a community presentation, starting at 7 p.m. on Sept. 30 at Hudson's Bay High School's commons area, 1601 E. McLoughlin Blvd., Vancouver. Read story

LinkedIn accused of email hacking

September 20, 2013, 5:00pm Business

NEW YORK -- LinkedIn Corp., owner of the world's most popular professional-networking website, was sued by customers alleging it appropriated their identities for marketing the site without their consent by hacking into their external email accounts and downloading contacts' addresses. Read story

Google aims to expand facilities in The Dalles

September 20, 2013, 5:00pm Business

THE DALLES, Ore. -- Google Inc. is planning a third data storage plant in The Dalles along the Columbia River with the support of local property tax breaks. Read story

A U.S.-Canada treaty that governs operations of the fourth-largest river in North America -- affecting everything from power prices and water supplies to grain shipments and recreation in the Pacific Northwest -- should be renegotiated to make the system more flexible amid climate change and to aid threatened and endangered species that weren't considered when the treaty was created decades ago, federal regulators recommended in a draft document.

Draft plan calls for revised Columbia treaty

A U.S.-Canada treaty that governs operations of the fourth-largest river in North America -- affecting everything from power prices and water supplies to grain shipments and recreation in the Pacific Northwest -- should be renegotiated to make the system more flexible amid climate change and to aid threatened and endangered species that weren't considered when the treaty was created decades ago, federal regulators recommended in a draft document.

September 20, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

American officials reviewing the decades-old treaty that shapes the management of the Columbia River in the U.S. and Canada have recommended modernizing its scope to include ecological issues and climate change, according to a draft document released Friday. Read story

Steve Stuart touches on major issues

September 20, 2013, 5:00pm Business

As a group, all three Clark County commissioners agree that a new bridge is needed across the Columbia River, the chairman of the commission told a business lunch crowd on Thursday in Camas. Read story

Sindhu Koirala, right, of Nepal recites the Oath of Allegiance during a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony Friday at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. She was among 29 people to become new U.S.

29 become U.S. citizens at Fort Vancouver ceremony

Sindhu Koirala, right, of Nepal recites the Oath of Allegiance during a U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization ceremony Friday at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. She was among 29 people to become new U.S.

September 20, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

Vancouver businessman Elie Kassab recalled Friday the moment he knew he wanted to go to the United States. Read story

Police seek help in identifying wallet theft suspects

September 19, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

Police are asking the public for help in identifying two people suspected of stealing a wallet from an east Vancouver grocery store last month. Read story

Vancouver man sentenced to prison for selling counterfeit air bags

September 19, 2013, 5:00pm Clark County News

A Vancouver man who sold hundred of counterfeit vehicle air bags on eBay and Craigslist was sentenced to six months in prison and three years supervised release in Tacoma's U.S. District Court. Read story