[4] He started the paper with S. D. Dennis as a means to promote the Democratic Party and act as counterweight to the local Republican newspaper The Vancouver Independent.

[5] Hornibrook sold the paper to Herbert Campbell, with the ownership change going into effect on May 1, 1921.

[5] In 1954, construction on a new printing plant for the paper costing $375,000 began at West 8th and Grant street.

[14] The paper briefly relocated to new offices just south of Esther Short Park on Jan. 13, 2008,[15] but, citing declining revenue, relocated to their original building at 701 W. 8th St. by December of the same year in an attempt to avert bankruptcy.

[19] Ben Campbell, the paper's fourth generation owner, was named publisher in 2020.