Despite fewer donations, volunteers and operating hours, PA Food Bank expects growing need
PORT ANGELES – With the record number of layoffs and furloughs throughout our community because of the virus scare, local food banks are preparing for what could be a dramatic increase in clientele. At the same time,
Charges filed in fake suicide scheme that ended with arrests in Port Townsend
Tacoma – Two men who schemed to fake a suicide so one could go AWOL from the Army were charged Thursday in U.S. District Court in Tacoma with making a false distress message to the U.S. Coast
No new COVID-19 cases in Clallam County, area needs more masks
PORT ANGELES – Local emergency management officials say the community needs more personal protective devices. And they’re asking for more volunteers to make them if possible. Clallam County Undersheriff Ron Cameron donations of the masks have dipped.
State unemployment numbers smashing records
OLYMPIA, Wash (AP) — The number of people seeking unemployment benefits in Washington set a new record last week, with tens of thousands more people in the state filing new claims as non-essential businesses remain closed due
Body of slain landlord recovered
EVERETT, Wash. — The Everett Police Department has launched an investigation after a body was found in Skagit County. Police believe 67-year-old Howard Benzel of Mukilteo was killed over the weekend after visiting a tenant he was
Boeing offering voluntary layoff plan
SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing is offering a voluntary layoff plan to prepare for an aircraft industry that the CEO says will take time to recover from the coronavirus pandemic. CEO David Calhoun didn’t rule out involuntary job
Ride the Ducks of Seattle files for bankruptcy
SEATTLE – Ride the Ducks of Seattle, the amphibious vehicle tour company, closed last week and filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy. A statement on the company’s website says legal issues stemming from the deadly crash on the Aurora
City of Sequim redirects Public Works crew to sanitizing public spaces
SEQUIM — The City of Sequim announced Thursday they have redirected the work of members of the Public Works Crew to sanitize the public spaces throughout the City. The crew is using the Centers for Disease Control
Gov. Inslee extends “stay-home” order to May 4th
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has extended his order to keep non-essential businesses closed and most of the state’s residents home through May 4, saying that social distancing measures must remain in place an
In COVID-19 crisis, patients are left waiting as hospitals put major surgeries on hold
Zach Branson(WHITEWATER, Colo.) — Zach Branson was born with a rare liver disease. Doctors recently told Branson, a 33-year-old living in Whitewater, Colorado, that he wouldn’t survive much longer without a liver transplant. In a stroke of