The city of Vancouver is developing four small-business relief programs to create jobs and economic opportunity, especially in low-income neighborhoods. Read more… Source: The Columbian
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Vancouver City Council plans to condemn land needed for Grand Loop in Heights District
By The Citizen on October 9, 2025
The Vancouver City Council agreed Monday to move forward with condemnation proceedings on a slice of land needed for a road through the mixed-use, walkable…
Developer scales back plans for apartment complex off 58th Street after Vancouver council rejects original plan
By The Citizen on October 8, 2025
A Vancouver developer is revising its plans for a five-story, 77-unit apartment complex on 1.6 acres in the Walnut Grove neighborhood. Read more… Source: The…
Ethics complaint against Vancouver City Councilor Kim Harless headed to hearings examiner
By The Citizen on October 7, 2025
The Vancouver City Council voted Monday to send an ethics complaint against Councilor Kim Harless to the city’s hearings examiner for an investigation. Read more… …
Fire officials face ‘skyrocketing prices, brutal backlogs’ replacing aging vehicles in Clark County
By The Citizen on October 7, 2025
In April 2020, just one month into the COVID-19 pandemic, the Vancouver Fire Department replaced one of its aging fire engines with a new rig…
After a failed levy, Prop. 5 is a less-expensive bid to raise money for Vancouver police services
By The Citizen on October 3, 2025
Proposition 5, which is before Vancouver voters on the Nov. 4 ballot, would raise money to add as many as 13 full-time sworn police officers.…
Vancouver residents’ top concerns at forum? Population growth, abandoned vehicles, homelessness
By The Citizen on September 30, 2025
Dozens of Vancouver-area residents turned out to the Vancouver City Council’s quarterly community forum Monday evening to get city officials’ input on everything from homelessness…
C-Tran board to seek injunction blocking state’s demand to reduce representation of small cities
By The Citizen on September 11, 2025
Faced with an impasse over what the state requires and what its own advisory group has suggested, C-Tran’s board of directors has agreed to seek…
Vancouver’s new 0.1 percent sales tax a ‘major commitment to expanding arts and cultural services’
By The Citizen on September 9, 2025
A new 0.1 percent sales tax in the city of Vancouver will raise an estimated $7 million a year to expand public access to arts,…
Vancouver City Councilor Kim Harless shouldn’t have voted on grants for fiance’s nonprofit, says complaint
By The Citizen on September 5, 2025
An ethics complaint filed against Vancouver City Councilor Kim Harless alleges she should have recused herself from voting to award grants to a nonprofit run…