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April 9, 2021 - Local businesses most impacted by continued pandemic-related restrictions will benefit from a new program to refund the City of Vancouver’s...

April 9, 2021 - The Treasury Rent Eviction Program in Clark County is now underway and the waiting lists are quickly filling up. ...

Over the past year, Portland City Council approved the Design Overlay Zone Amendments (DOZA) project, the Shelter to Housing Continuum (S2HC) project, and the Residential Infill Project (RP). Each project includes significant changes to streamline reviews, enhance the built environment, provide for more inclusive neighborhoods, and better address the needs of our City’s houseless population.

Results from water samples taken from Vancouver Lake on Monday revealed cyanotoxins above the threshold levels recommended by the Washington Department of Health. Danger signs are being posted at the public access points to the lake.

These programs have provided an unprecedented $21.4 in financial assistance since August 2020 and are currently serving more than 100 additional households per week by providing an average of more than $800,000 per week in financial assistance.

Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden today announced that the federal department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has awarded more than $18 million in funding for health centers all across Oregon.

Oregon’s U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley, a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, today announced that both houses of Congress have passed a provision proposed by Merkley to help ease the transition to the U.S. for recently evacuated Afghan refugees who are relocating to America.

Clark County Public Health is downgrading the advisories at Vancouver Lake and Lacamas and Round lakes in Camas. The danger advisories at all three lakes are being downgraded to warning.

Oregon’s U.S. Senators Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden have teamed up with United States Senators Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), and Steve Daines (R-Mont.) in a bipartisan push to urge U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen to establish an Office of Tribal Affairs within the Treasury Department.

The end may be in sight for a bitter battle being waged in an elite neighborhood in Portland, Oregon. The Portland City Council will meet on November 3rd to begin the process of determining how historic districts will work in the city and start to heal this broken neighborhood.