June 4, 2021, 6:03am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
It’s an old-school steel truss bridge that carries Interstate 5 over the river near the border of Clark County. The aging structure is functionally obsolete and faces a high risk of collapse in an earthquake, and the Washington State Department of Transportation is working to replace it in the near… Read story
May 20, 2021, 4:19pm Business
The Interstate Bridge Replacement Program office has received written federal guidance that restricts the project’s ability to substantially alter two guiding documents that were drafted for its predecessor, the Columbia River Crossing. Read story
May 18, 2021, 7:00pm Clark County News
State lawmakers from Southwest Washington balked at Gov. Jay Inslee’s partial veto on a pair of carbon-curbing bills Monday, a move that legislators on both sides of the aisle are calling an overreach of the governor’s powers. Read story
May 17, 2021, 9:36pm Clark County News
The Vancouver City Council approved HP Inc.’s master plan to relocate its Clark County campus to a former mining site, giving the company the official green light to construct a multibuilding, 1.5 million-square-foot complex. Read story
May 11, 2021, 6:02am Clark County News Subscriber Exclusive
The city of Vancouver is drafting a list of transportation projects ranked by importance, with the top priorities aimed at adding capacity to the system’s overused roads. Read story
May 10, 2021, 9:07pm Clark County News
The Vancouver City Council awarded a contract to repave and restripe Columbia Street in downtown, a seemingly banal move that in fact represents the revival of a long-sought and hotly debated plan to swap the arterial’s street parking for bicycle lanes. Read story
May 9, 2021, 6:05am Business Subscriber Exclusive
It was funding that killed the Columbia River Crossing. The original Interstate 5 Bridge replacement project was already embroiled in controversy, but the killing blow came when the Washington Senate adjourned without approving the state’s portion of the project funding in 2013. Read story
May 9, 2021, 6:05am Business
Recent headlines about the Interstate 5 Bridge replacement effort have chronicled the reemergence of one of the biggest sticking points from Columbia River Crossing era: light rail. Read story
May 4, 2021, 6:57pm Clark County News
Sen. Patty Murray is spreading the word about her plan to electrify the nation’s fleet of public school buses by highlighting one example already out for a test-drive in Clark County. Read story
April 25, 2021, 6:04am Clark County News
The Washington State Department of Transportation has released details about an upcoming $10 million improvement project for a stretch of East Mill Plain Boulevard and the East 15th Street couplet through downtown Vancouver, aimed at preparing the corridor to handle future growth. Read story