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With bond funding for sewer extension now secure, La Center’s plans for mixed-use ‘town center’ near interstate begin to gel
…apidly changing landscape to their west — where the Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s new ilani casino-resort is now fewer than three months away from its mid-April opening — city leaders in La Center are pushin…
Welcome to La Center? Welcome to the Cowlitz Indian Reservation? Tribe, city council debate roundabout signage
…describing his firm’s landscape design work on the Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s mega-casino …
Tribal casino hopes to fill 1,000 competitive-wage jobs
COWLITZ INDIAN RESERVATION — Interested in working at the new mega-casino being built on the Cowlitz Indian Reservation near La Center? The ilani re…
Cowlitz casino opponents push fight to U.S. Supreme Court
LA CENTER — The legal fight to block the Cowlitz Indian Tribe from opening its mega-casino on reservation land near La Center is not dead yet. In late October, the tribe learned that three…
La Center budget planners not gambling on card rooms’ future
…ways a question of “if” not “when” — as in “if” the Cowlitz Indian Tribe opened its planned mega-casino near the small north Clark County city’s Interstate 5 border, would gambling tax revenues from …
Water Protector: A Cowlitz tribal member describes Native American efforts to protect the Missouri River and protest the $3.8 billion Dakota Access oil pipeline
…ar-old Cowlitz tribal member and coordinator of the Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s Youth Program. “I was never an activist.” But when Pfeifer heard last August that Native American Indian tribes were gatherin…
High-tech wastewater reclamation plant on Cowlitz Reservation nears completion
…rt wastewater treatment facility being built on the Cowlitz Indian Reservation near La Center is more than halfway toward its completion and expected to be online by March 1, 2017. Once complete, the…
Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s $510 million casino-resort project ‘on time and on budget’
…negotiating and jumping multiple legal hurdles, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe is finally seeing the fruits of their labors in the rapidly expanding tribal casino and resort being built off Interstate 5, ne…
La Center prepares for massive revenue shortfalls after casino opening
…CENTER — With their new neighbors to the west, the Cowlitz Indian Tribe, only seven months away from opening their massive, $500 million ilani casino, officials in the small city of La Center are fac…