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Participants talk and enjoy breakfast before the start of the 2013 Economic Forecast Breakfast this morning.

CRC letter on radar at economic forecast event

Participants talk and enjoy breakfast before the start of the 2013 Economic Forecast Breakfast this morning.

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Business

Clark County's economic future was the official theme this morning in Vancouver. Read story

Agency lifts Clark County burn ban

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

Improving air quality on Thursday prompted the Southwest Clean Air Agency to lift a countywide burn ban that had stretched for 10 days. Residents are allowed to burn wood again but should still be mindful of health effects when doing so, according to the agency. Read story

Washington State Patrol is investigating a fatal crash on state Highway 14 eastbound on Thursday.

Vancouver man dies in early morning crash on Highway 14

Washington State Patrol is investigating a fatal crash on state Highway 14 eastbound on Thursday.

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

The Washington State Patrol has identified the person killed in an early morning crash on state Highway 14 as a Vancouver man. Read story

College Notebook: Vancouver’s Gordon, Limage finalists for Rutschman award

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

A pair of Vancouver athletes are are in the running for the 2012 Ad Rutschman Small College Athlete of the Year Award, an honor presented annually at the Oregon Sports Awards. Read story

Weather Eye: Freezing rain largely fizzles; warmer temperatures ahead

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

As promised our inversion is long gone but not without a few brief pockets of sleet or freezing rain, mainly near the Gorge. It seemed the media made a bigger deal out of it than what occurred or what was on the horizon. Forecast models had the precipitation arriving earlier,… Read story

This Feb. 28, 2011 file photo shows protests continuing at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., as police and demonstrators gather on the rotunda floor where opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers had been sleeping.

Membership in unions declines sharply

This Feb. 28, 2011 file photo shows protests continuing at the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., as police and demonstrators gather on the rotunda floor where opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers had been sleeping.

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Business

WASHINGTON -- Union membership plummeted last year to the lowest level since the 1930s as cash-strapped state and local governments shed workers and unions had difficulty organizing new members in the private sector despite signs of an improving economy. Read story

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Drawing up a plan for your garden before planting will save you from making costly mistakes.

Cuttings are a way to landscape on a budget

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Drawing up a plan for your garden before planting will save you from making costly mistakes.

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

A friend of mine built a new house last year. While he's delighted with it, the project ended up costing more than he had anticipated. The money he has left over for landscaping is clearly not going to be enough to pay for the gardens he had envisioned. Read story

First known ‘social chromosome’ found

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

To humans, all fire ants may look alike. But the tiny, red, stinging bugs known as Solenopsis invicta have two types of social organization, and these factions are as recognizable to the ants as rival football teams are to us. Researchers once thought that the groups' distinct physiological and behavioral… Read story

Construction has begun on the $16 million Prestige Plaza apartment complex on the former site of a walk-up Burgerville restaurant at Mill Plain and D Street.

Project at Burgerville site called gateway to downtown

Construction has begun on the $16 million Prestige Plaza apartment complex on the former site of a walk-up Burgerville restaurant at Mill Plain and D Street.

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Business

A pivotal development project launched this week could mark the dawn of a new age for downtown Vancouver. Read story

Fred Meyer donates to bicycle organization

January 23, 2013, 4:00pm Clark County News

Bike Clark County received its first bike donation after a fleet of bicycles was stolen from the volunteer bike advocacy organization last summer. Fred Meyer donated 12 bikes for the organization's upcoming "Safe Routes to School" bicycle safety program. Read story