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Trader Fred Demarco works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, April 21, 2025.

Wall Street rallies and recovers most of Monday’s slide as the dollar and US bond market steady

Trader Fred Demarco works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, April 21, 2025.

April 22, 2025, 1:14pm Business

U.S. stocks jumped in a widespread rally Tuesday, and other U.S. investments steadied a day after falling sharply on worries about President Donald Trump’s trade war and his attacks on the head of the Federal Reserve. Read story

Visitor Holden Castillo, 1½, from left, is all smiles while exploring the children’s play area with his mom, Veronica, at Vancouver Community Library in March. On Monday, trustees for the regional library system agreed on plans for both passage and failure of the levy, which they had earlier decided to place on the Aug. 5 ballot.

FVRLibraries braces for 30% cut in staff if August levy lid lift fails

Visitor Holden Castillo, 1½, from left, is all smiles while exploring the children’s play area with his mom, Veronica, at Vancouver Community Library in March. On Monday, trustees for the regional library system agreed on plans for both passage and failure of the levy, which they had earlier decided to place on the Aug. 5 ballot.

April 22, 2025, 12:57pm Clark County News

If a levy lid lift before voters in August fails, FVRLibraries would cut 30 percent of its staff, reduce hours and close the Vancouver Mall Library. Read story

FILE - A flower is posted on a direction sign to Umpqua Community College, Oct. 2, 2015, in Roseburg, Ore.

Oregon police arrest driver behind fatal crash involving community college softball team

FILE - A flower is posted on a direction sign to Umpqua Community College, Oct. 2, 2015, in Roseburg, Ore.

April 22, 2025, 12:55pm Latest News

Oregon police have arrested the driver behind a fatal crash involving a community college softball team that left a player and a coach dead. Read story

Fnj Kenneth, 20, appears last month in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree assault and drive-by shooting. He pleaded guilty to similar charges Monday, and a judge sentenced him to 18 months in prison.

Vancouver man sentenced to 18 months for shooting a teen at Fourth Plain McDonald’s

Fnj Kenneth, 20, appears last month in Clark County Superior Court on suspicion of first-degree assault and drive-by shooting. He pleaded guilty to similar charges Monday, and a judge sentenced him to 18 months in prison.

April 22, 2025, 12:54pm Clark County News

A 20-year-old Vancouver man was sentenced Monday to 18 months in prison for shooting a teen last month near a busy central Vancouver intersection. Read story

The Grant Street Pier juts out over the Columbia River on July 23, 2024. The Vancouver City Council on Monday adopted a five-year economic development strategy that includes a marketing campaign to position Vancouver as a center of innovation.

‘Filling in all those gaps’: Vancouver adopts its first economic development strategy

The Grant Street Pier juts out over the Columbia River on July 23, 2024. The Vancouver City Council on Monday adopted a five-year economic development strategy that includes a marketing campaign to position Vancouver as a center of innovation.

April 22, 2025, 12:50pm Business

In its first ever economic development strategy, the city of Vancouver plans to build generational wealth, promote trade jobs and position Vancouver as an innovative place with vibrant commercial districts. Read story

Hegseth pulled airstrike info from secure military channel for Signal posts, NBC News reports

April 22, 2025, 10:50am Latest News

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth pulled the airstrike information he posted into Signal chats with his wife, brother and dozens of others from a secure communications channel used by U.S. Central Command, raising new questions as to whether the embattled Pentagon head leaked classified information over an open, unsecured network. Read story

A barge sits docked at an industrial facility next to Columbia Riverfront RV Park in Woodland. The Port of Woodland recently purchased the RV park.

Woodland port rejects tax plan used to build Vancouver port waterfront

A barge sits docked at an industrial facility next to Columbia Riverfront RV Park in Woodland. The Port of Woodland recently purchased the RV park.

April 22, 2025, 9:39am Business

The Port of Woodland’s three commissioners last week voted unanimously to reject a controversial pro-development tax plan known as tax increment financing, or TIF. Read story

Water is released through the outlet tubes at Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. (AP Photo/Nicholas K.

Feds put review of Columbia River hydropower system on ice

Water is released through the outlet tubes at Grand Coulee Dam on the Columbia River. (AP Photo/Nicholas K.

April 22, 2025, 9:35am Business

A move by federal water managers to pause a landmark environmental review of the Columbia River hydropower system has become a Rorschach test that leaves utilities, salmon advocates, commercial shippers and Native nations, as well as Washington and Oregon officials guessing. Read story

FILE - Pope Francis, centre, sits as the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI St. Peter’s Square is carrying during a funeral mass at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.

Pope Francis’ funeral to be held Saturday, with public viewing starting Wednesday

FILE - Pope Francis, centre, sits as the coffin of late Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI St. Peter’s Square is carrying during a funeral mass at the Vatican, Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023.

April 22, 2025, 7:45am Churches & Religion

Pope Francis will be laid to rest Saturday after lying in state for three days in St. Peter’s Basilica, where the faithful are expected to flock to pay their respects to history’s first Latin American pontiff. Read story

FILE — Holocaust survivors attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020.

70% of Jewish Holocaust survivors will be gone in the next 10 years, a report shows

FILE — Holocaust survivors attend a ceremony at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Nazi death camp in Oswiecim, Poland, Jan. 27, 2020.

April 22, 2025, 7:42am Churches & Religion

Eighty years after the Holocaust, more than 200,000 Jewish survivors are still alive but 70% of them will be gone within the next 10 years — meaning time is running out to hear the voices of the last generation who suffered through one of the worst atrocities in history. Read story