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Clark County News

Passers-by help resident escape from burning house

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

Fire burned through a single-story house Friday afternoon in the Sunnyside neighborhood. A neighbor and a postal carrier who saw the smoke, knocked on the front door to make sure the woman inside got out safely. Read story

A top assistant to Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a letter this week that an Oregon-led Columbia River Crossing is legally permissible as long as no Washington money goes to the project.

Washington AG: Oregon-led CRC passes legal muster

A top assistant to Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said in a letter this week that an Oregon-led Columbia River Crossing is legally permissible as long as no Washington money goes to the project.

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

A top assistant to Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson said this week that an Oregon-led Columbia River Crossing would pass legal muster -- as long as funds from Washington aren't used in the project. Read story

Inslee taking public input on Web forum

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

Gov. Jay Inslee announced this week that he's launched a new website forum to take public comment about his Results Washington initiative, which aims to make Washington government more effective, efficient and transparent. Read story

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