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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

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…
Clark County Business
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

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.
Clark County News
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

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.
Clark County Business
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

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.
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A voter drops off his ballot at a Clark County ballot drop box in the Vancouver Mall parking lot Nov. 3, 2020.

Special election ballots due today in Clark County

Today is the last day for Clark County residents to submit their ballots to be counted in the special election.

Business

Sheldon Angelo (left), Albert Angelo III (middle) and Al “Corky” Angelo Jr.

Vancouver real estate executive Al ‘Corky’ Angelo Jr. dies at 76

Al “Corky” Angelo Jr., co-owner of the Vancouver property management company founded by his father and namesake, died Saturday. He was 76.

Northwest

This is the last full week of Washington´s regular legislative session, which ends on April 27. (M.

The Washington Legislature’s final week brings long to-do list

The Washington legislative session is coming to an end — probably.

Sports

The Columbia River girls golf team poses with the Titan Cup after winning the team tournament at Orchard Hills Country Club in Washougal on Monday, April 21, 2025.

Prep highlights: Columbia River girls golf capture Titan Cup title for first time

Maia Carrillo and Saylor LaCross won their alternate-shot match in the morning, then both posted wins in the singles match in the afternoon, leading the…

Politics

President Donald Trump speaks while meeting with Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni (unseen) in the Oval Office of the White House, Thursday, April 17, 2025, in Washington, as Vice President JD Vance, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth listen.

As controversies pile up, Trump allies increasingly turn on one another

The infighting and backstabbing that plagued President Donald Trump’s first term have returned as a threat to his second, with deepening fissures over trade, national…

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Vehicles involved in a three-car collision on Saturday on N.E.

Two sent to hospital, one critical, after three-car collision in east Vancouver

Two people were taken to the hospital, one in critical condition, after a three-car collision Saturday morning in east Vancouver.

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Health

Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a news conference on the Autism report by the CDC at the Hubert Humphrey Building Auditorium in Washington, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.

RFK Jr. plans to phase out eight artificial dyes from the U.S. food supply

U.S. health officials said they plan to phase out eight petroleum-based artificial colors from the nation’s food supply, triggering an overhaul of scores of brightly…

Life

Mansfield Senior High School health teacher Tony Davis explains a graph of student responses to questions from his sleep class Dec. 6 in Mansfield, Ohio.

Is your teenager sleep-deprived? Try these tips

Navigating bedtime with a teenager is, in many homes, a nightly battle with a constant refrain: Get off your phone! Go to bed!

Nation / World

A giant sequoia tree is shown planted at an Arboretum Detroit parcel in Detroit, Friday, March 21, 2025.

A sequoia forest in Detroit? Plantings to improve air quality and mark Earth Day

Arborists are turning vacant land on Detroit’s eastside into a small urban forest, not of elms, oaks and red maples indigenous to the city but…

Economic Forecast – March 2025

Economic Forecast – March 2025

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Opinion

April 23: Pope Francis

Editorial Cartoons for Week of April 21, 2025

In Our View: Clinging to coal counterproductive to goals

Alam: Ideology over electability

Letter: Follow science on Snake River dams

Letter: Work to reduce greenhouse gas

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