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Pacific Northwest startup wants to expand private flying beyond the ultra-rich

By Tom Banse May 12, 2023

KinectAir CEO Jonathan Evans disembarks from a Pilatus PC-12 aircraft in Kalispell after joining a customer's flight from Vancouver, Washington

For a few years now, aviation enthusiasts have teased the idea of a Jetsons-style future in which small electric aircraft whisk us to work or across the state and region. That future is not here yet, though a handful of companies, including one based in the Pacific Northwest, are trying to get a head start on the future of flying using conventional planes.Read More

Vancouver Expo ’86: Remembering Cascadia’s Last Great World’s Fair 35 Years Later

By NWPB News July 15, 2021

The monorail at Expo '86 in Vancouver, Canada, the last time a Northwest city hosted the global cultural gathering. Seattle, Portland and Spokane have hosted as well. CREDIT: Colin Rose, CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

When Vancouver hosted a modern expo in 1986, it joined the Northwest’s other major cities, Portland (1905), Seattle (1909, 1962) and Spokane (1974) as exposition hosts. In the years since Expo ’86, Vancouver’s has also gained important symbolism as the last expo hosted in North America. It was a kind of golden moment. Read More

The Heat Wave Has Killed Dozens And Hospitalized More Across Washington, Oregon And B.C.

By NPR News June 30, 2021

A display at an Olympia Federal Savings branch shows a temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit on Monday in the early evening in Olympia, Wash. CREDIT: Ted S. Warren/AP

Scores of deaths along the U.S. West Coast and in the Vancouver metro area in Canada are being blamed on an ongoing heat wave that has broken records.Read More

Washington Plans Mass Vaccination Sites, But Says Please Register…And Don’t Show Up Yet

By Anna King January 21, 2021

Eager seniors filled up all of the first come, first serve slots at a drive-thru COVID vaccination clinic before the first shots were even given on Thursday in Sequim, Washington. CREDIT: Tom Banse/N3

Washington state plans to roll out mass doses of the COVID-19 vaccine at regional hubs starting Monday, Jan. 25. But some local officials say they received little notice and that they’re far from ready. Read More

Lights, Camera, Action: How Vancouver (AKA ‘Hollywood North’) Revved Up Despite COVID

By Tom Banse November 15, 2020

The film and TV industry in British Columbia is busier than ever in spite of COVID and partly because of COVID. The place sometimes called Hollywood North is benefiting from high demand for new content from networks and streaming services. The much smaller film industries in next door Washington state and Oregon are rebounding more slowly from the region wide shutdown Read More

Matriarch Of Northwest Apple Industry Passes Away At Age…194? Yeah, That’s Correct

By Tom Banse August 18, 2020

The long-standing plaque at the foot of the Old Apple Tree testifies to how the community recognized the significance of the tree early on. CREDIT: Tom Banse/N3

It's not often that you'll read an obituary for a tree. Or that a dead tree gets a memorial service of sorts. But then there aren't many like Vancouver, Washington's "Old Apple Tree."Read More

Americans, Go Home: Canadians Track U.S. Boaters Sneaking Across The Border Around Vancouver

By NPR News August 4, 2020

View of the waterfront from Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada on January 20, 2020. The number of American pleasure craft arriving from Washington state has alarmed Canadians living just across the border. CREDIT: Mark Goodnow/AFP via Getty Images

U.S. pleasure boats have been sneaking into Canada despite a border shutdown. A group of Canadian retirees is on the lookout for violators from the "petri dish" that is America.Read More

Washington And Oregon Governors Revive Talks To Replace I-5 Bridge

By Lauren Dake November 18, 2019

The Interstate 5 bridge is seen here from the Washington side on Monday, Nov. 18, 2019. The governors of Washington and Oregon are meeting to announce their joint plan to revive the Columbia River Crossing project. The project seeks to replace the aging Interstate 5 bridge over the Columbia River. CREDIT: Nathan Howard/The Columbian via AP

Govs. Kate Brown, of Oregon, and Jay Inslee, of Washington, met in Vancouver today to announce the first formal steps to develop a finance plan and reevaluate previous studies of replacing the bridge. They are allocating $44 million to the initial effort of what could eventually be a multibillion dollar bridge replacement project.Read More

Police Arrest At Least 13 After Portland Demonstrations Bring Out Groups With Opposing Ideologies

By NWPB News August 18, 2019

Portland police watch as a Proud Boys rally continues under the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland, Ore., Saturday, Aug. 17, 2019. The Proud Boys espouse white supremacist ideology and have been designated a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center. CREDIT: Bradley W. Parks/OPB

Demonstrations in downtown Portland remained largely non-violent Saturday as the two opposing groups stayed mostly separated. The groups wandered across central Portland for hours, with counter-protesters crossing the Burnside Bridge, spilling onto Southeast Grand Avenue and impacting traffic.Read More

‘We’re Sorry We Let You Down.’ New Washington Law Aims To Eliminate Rape Kit Backlog

By Austin Jenkins April 23, 2019

Forensic scientist Laura Kelly tests a sexual assault kit at the Washington State Patrol crime lab in Vancouver. CREDIT: MOLLY SOLOMON/OPB

Currently, there are more than 10,000 untested sexual assault kits in Washington, according to the Washington State Patrol. On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law yet another measure designed to address the backlog. Read More

27 Students Suspended, 9 Arrested In Vancouver, Washington School Disturbance

By Molly Solomon March 19, 2019

Vancouver school officials are suspending 27 students and banning them from campus after a disruption that canceled a middle school basketball tournament Friday. Nine of those students have also been arrested.Read More

More Than 50 Teachers And Staff Could Be Cut At Vancouver Schools

By Molly Solomon February 28, 2019

Members of the Vancouver Public Schools board of directors Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2019. CREDIT: MOLLY SOLOMON/OPB

Vancouver Public Schools says it will need to cut more than 50 teacher and staff positions to help close a $14.3 million budget deficit.Read More

Vancouver Fined $60,000 For 2017 Columbia River Sewage Spills

By Molly Solomon January 6, 2019

Allies and members of Yakama Nation hold a rally at the Vancouver Landing Amphitheater along the Columbia River. CREDIT: ERICKA CRUZ GUEVARRA/OPB

The city of Vancouver has been fined $60,000 after raw sewage was accidentally released into the Columbia River in 2017. The discharged sewage from Vancouver’s Westside Wastewater Treatment Plant happened during two separate spills in September and October of 2017Read More

Another Amtrak Cascades Train Derailed Almost Exactly One Year After I-5 Wreck, No Injuries

By Tom Banse December 18, 2018

No passengers were injured Monday when an Amtrak Cascades train derailed while slowly backing into the station in Vancouver, Canada. CREDIT: FILE PHOTO BY ERICVNTR / WIKIMEDIA COMMONS TINYURL.COM/Y9ULXW5W

An Amtrak Cascades train arriving in Vancouver, B.C., from Seattle derailed at low speed Monday. Nobody was hurt, but the timing was unfortunate: The derailment occurred almost exactly one year after last December's deadly derailment south of Tacoma, which killed three people and injured dozens more. Read More

Report: FBI Classifies Washington-Oregon Proud Boys As Extremist Group

By Molly Solomon November 25, 2018

Proud Boy and Patriot Prayer members staged a “Freedom and Courage” rally and march in Portland, Ore., on June 30, 2018. CREDIT: John Rudoff/Sipa USA

The Federal Bureau of Investigation “categorizes the Proud Boys as an extremist group with ties to white nationalism,” according to a report by the Clark County, Wash., Sheriff’s Office.Read More