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LEADOPTION Incoming Executive Director Christine Zabel, left, chats Tuesday with outgoing Executive Director Sharon Pesut, who is retiring from nonprofit Partners in Careers. Over the past 13 years, Pesut has helped expand youth and veteran programs, build community connections and diversify funding to bring financial stability to the organization.

Partners in Careers executive director Sharon Pesut will retire at the end of December

LEADOPTION Incoming Executive Director Christine Zabel, left, chats Tuesday with outgoing Executive Director Sharon Pesut, who is retiring from nonprofit Partners in Careers. Over the past 13 years, Pesut has helped expand youth and veteran programs, build community connections and diversify funding to bring financial stability to the organization.

December 17, 2024, 6:05am Business

Partners in Careers Executive Director Sharon Pesut will retire from her role at the end of December. Read story

Les Wolf spent most of his life working for the wholesale auto-parts supply company his entrepreneur father built. Wolf Supply Company is long gone now, but Les and his brother still own this downtown building, and decided a few years ago to honor their father, Morris Wolf, with a historical mural.

‘Something in Dad’s honor’: Vancouver mural honors Morris Wolf’s success at the American dream

Les Wolf spent most of his life working for the wholesale auto-parts supply company his entrepreneur father built. Wolf Supply Company is long gone now, but Les and his brother still own this downtown building, and decided a few years ago to honor their father, Morris Wolf, with a historical mural.

December 14, 2024, 6:14am Business

The mural perched above the corner of Evergreen and Columbia streets in downtown Vancouver usually elicits one of two comments, according to Les Wolf, the retired businessman and admiring son who had it painted there a few years ago. Read story

Monica Martinez-Animas, left, and Valerie Eliason, both residents of The Normandy apartments in downtown Vancouver, enjoy a cup of tea in Eliason’s studio unit. The Normandy is on the chopping block in one of the proposed scenarios for the Interstate 5 Bridge replacement. Tenants at The Normandy say it offers the only truly affordable rent in the city.

33 affordable apartments in Vancouver could end up in the path of a new I-5 bridge; residents fear the worst

Monica Martinez-Animas, left, and Valerie Eliason, both residents of The Normandy apartments in downtown Vancouver, enjoy a cup of tea in Eliason’s studio unit. The Normandy is on the chopping block in one of the proposed scenarios for the Interstate 5 Bridge replacement. Tenants at The Normandy say it offers the only truly affordable rent in the city.

December 14, 2024, 6:14am Business

Valerie Eliason’s pulse quickened as she stared at the front page of The Columbian. Read story

A truck prepares to leave the Washougal Pit on July 25, 2018.

Clark County Council defaults to original denial of Zimmerly mining road

A truck prepares to leave the Washougal Pit on July 25, 2018.

December 14, 2024, 6:10am Business

Months after denying a proposal from a Ridgefield-based mining company to designate a private road in rural Washougal as a public thoroughfare, the Clark County Council gave the request a second look. Read story

This is an artist’s rendering of the central mixed-use section of the Columbia Palisades redevelopment, where the Southwest Washington Center for the Arts hopes to build a concert hall with as many as 1,400 seats.

Clark County performing arts center organizers move forward with plans, now hiring a director

This is an artist’s rendering of the central mixed-use section of the Columbia Palisades redevelopment, where the Southwest Washington Center for the Arts hopes to build a concert hall with as many as 1,400 seats.

December 12, 2024, 12:20pm Business

The effort to bring a major performing arts center to Clark County is ready to staff up with a new executive director and a professional fundraiser. Read story

A motorist passes by as construction crews work to install a new waterline along Northeast 112th Avenue on Nov. 4. The city of Vancouver is awarding fewer contract dollars to minority- and women-owned businesses than it should under a fair system, a disparity study commissioned by the city of Vancouver found.

‘Substantial disparities’: Fewer minority- and women-owned businesses are getting Vancouver city contracts than should be, says study

A motorist passes by as construction crews work to install a new waterline along Northeast 112th Avenue on Nov. 4. The city of Vancouver is awarding fewer contract dollars to minority- and women-owned businesses than it should under a fair system, a disparity study commissioned by the city of Vancouver found.

December 12, 2024, 10:27am Business

Vancouver is awarding fewer contract dollars to minority- and women-owned businesses than it should under a fair system, according to a disparity study commissioned by the city. Read story

Vancouver Housing Authority is in the process of purchasing Jens Pointe Apartments in east Vancouver. Half of the units will be for residents who earn 80 percent or less of the area median income. Eighty percent of the area’s median income is $60,202 annually for an individual.

Vancouver Housing Authority in process of buying Jens Pointe Apartments in east Vancouver for $76 million

Vancouver Housing Authority is in the process of purchasing Jens Pointe Apartments in east Vancouver. Half of the units will be for residents who earn 80 percent or less of the area median income. Eighty percent of the area’s median income is $60,202 annually for an individual.

December 12, 2024, 6:07am Business

Vancouver Housing Authority is beefing up its middle-income housing supply with the purchase of a 240-unit apartment building in the Cascade Park neighborhood. Read story

A C-Tran bus stops at the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center in 2022 before taking commuters to the Parkrose/Sumner Transit Center in Portland so they can board a MAX light rail train. C-Tran staff said Tuesday the agency expects the cost of operating a MAX extension into downtown Vancouver and adding express buses will cost $21.8 million in its first year of operation.

‘It seems so outrageous’: C-Tran board shocked at $21.8M per year light rail budget staff unveils at meeting

A C-Tran bus stops at the Fisher’s Landing Transit Center in 2022 before taking commuters to the Parkrose/Sumner Transit Center in Portland so they can board a MAX light rail train. C-Tran staff said Tuesday the agency expects the cost of operating a MAX extension into downtown Vancouver and adding express buses will cost $21.8 million in its first year of operation.

December 11, 2024, 5:01pm Business

C-Tran officials are considering asking voters to approve a sales tax to help cover the steep cost of extending light rail into Vancouver as part of a new Interstate 5 Bridge. Read story

Volunteers sort through food donated by residents in Vancouver in December 2022.

Walk & Knock collects 210,000 pounds of food for 40th year of food drive

Volunteers sort through food donated by residents in Vancouver in December 2022.

December 11, 2024, 3:49pm Business

Clark County volunteers collected 210,000 pounds of food for the 40th annual Walk & Knock, the nation’s largest one-day food drive. Read story

Two C-Tran buses are pictured near Clark College in Vancouver. The transit agency passed its 2025 and 2026 budgets Tuesday night.

‘It’s time to take a victory lap’: C-Tran plans for growth with $93M budget for 2025

Two C-Tran buses are pictured near Clark College in Vancouver. The transit agency passed its 2025 and 2026 budgets Tuesday night.

December 11, 2024, 1:03pm Business

Anticipating future growth, C-Tran’s board of directors on Tuesday unanimously approved the agency’s $93.1 million budget for 2025 and $98.4 million budget for 2026. Read story