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Microchip Technology CEO clarifies details behind layoffs at Fab 4 in Gresham

Microchip Technology will lay off 2,000 workers in Gresham, Colorado and the Philippines. It employs about 850 at its Gresham facility, which it calls...

Portland Opera’s relocation bucks trend of businesses leaving downtown

Some efforts to get people back to downtown Portland have been a bust, but city leaders are betting on the arts and events to...

Former PM Harper blasts Liberal leadership candidate Carney’s economic record

OTTAWA — Former prime minister Stephen Harper is taking shots at Liberal leadership frontrunner Mark Carney's economic record. Harper accuses Carney of taking unearned...

‘Everything is gone’: Thieves steal instruments from longtime Seattle music business

SEATTLE — A popular Seattle instrument rental business is looking for answers after thieves stole dozens of instruments worth tens of thousands of...

Rob Shaw: B.C. bracing for one of its weirdest, wildest budgets in history

B.C.’s provincial budget is shaping up to have three broad takeaways: A big new record-setting deficit, large pots of unallocated cash to respond to...

‘It’s evil’: Gold scammers target elderly across Pacific Northwest

A Portland precious metals dealer said one of his customers was targeted in a $170,000 scam, similar to a recent $500,000 fraud case in...

B.C. boosts biosecurity with new isolation pods

Two new bio-containment pods have been put on stand-by at Vancouver International Airport as part of an effort to contain highly infectious diseases before...

Les Leyne: Conservatives rally in Nanaimo, fight among selves but back Rustad

The biggest B.C. Conservative meeting ever was bristling with combative energy Saturday in Nanaimo as members celebrated their surge in last fall’s election. Delegates...

Opinion: It’s time that we walked the talk on interprovincial trade barriers

For decades, Canada has been stuck in a cycle of big talk and small steps when it comes to interprovincial trade. Now, as we...

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