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Amazon puts its stamp on Seattle

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Business

Two gigantic deals electrified Seattle's commercial real-estate scene in 2012. Read story

Treehouse program gives foster kids steady support

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

SEATTLE -- When the children living in foster care come traipsing through the doors of Treehouse after school, Samuel D. Martin IV knows they need more than just help with their studies: They need encouragement, stability and the kind of patient guidance that can lead a child out of a… Read story

James Finch, service adviser for the US Bank Service Center, takes a call at the facility in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

Call centers weather the economic slump

James Finch, service adviser for the US Bank Service Center, takes a call at the facility in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho.

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Business

Spokane -- For a room where hundreds may be on the phone at once, it's surprisingly serene on the floor of the US Bank Service Center in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Seated here in a labyrinth of beige cubicles are the people on the other end of the line when you… Read story

Keith Short, a UPS Service provider and driver, uses a DIAD (Delivery Information Acquisition Device), a hand-held computer, which gives him the delivery information for each package, in Baltimore.

Shipping technology streamlines UPS

Keith Short, a UPS Service provider and driver, uses a DIAD (Delivery Information Acquisition Device), a hand-held computer, which gives him the delivery information for each package, in Baltimore.

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Business

When Keith Short began delivering packages for UPS 23 years ago, he used bulky pads of paper to track parcels and pens that froze in the cold. Today, Short scans packages on and off his truck with a handheld computer that tells him what to deliver where and when, and… Read story

Vintage Books
The &quot;Fifty Shades of Grey&quot; trilogy by best-selling author E L James. EL James' erotic trilogy was easily the year's biggest hit, selling more than 35 million copies in the U.S. alone and topping bestseller lists for months.

Publishing’s future has many shades

Vintage Books
The &quot;Fifty Shades of Grey&quot; trilogy by best-selling author E L James. EL James' erotic trilogy was easily the year's biggest hit, selling more than 35 million copies in the U.S. alone and topping bestseller lists for months.

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

NEW YORK -- The story of 2012 in publishing was the story of "Fifty Shades of Grey," in more ways than one. Read story

Strictly Business: Waterfront rebirth draws near

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Business

A temporary cyclone fence blocked my passage to the Columbia River waterfront west of the Interstate Bridge one rainy morning last week. But beyond the new passageway cut beneath Burlington Northern's main line a couple blocks south of Esther Short Park, I could see the wide Columbia River in the… Read story

Clark County business briefing

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Business

People in business Read story

Dick Clark 
 Entertainer died  April 18

2012 in memoriam

Dick Clark 
 Entertainer died  April 18

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

Neil Armstrong would always be taking that first step onto the moon, and Dick Clark was forever "the world's oldest teenager." Some of the notables who died in 2012 created images in our minds that remained unchanged over decades. Read story

A coal train travels through Bellingham in 2011.

Clark County’s top 10 stories of 2012

A coal train travels through Bellingham in 2011.

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

Clark County's top two stories of the year were about connecting people, although on significantly different scales. Read story

Columbian sports staff’s best of 2012

December 29, 2012, 4:00pm Clark County News

Here are just a few unforgettable moments -- as either as a fan or a journalist -- that we either witnessed or experienced in 2012 Read story