Clallam unemployment increases more than 30 percent in one month
PORT ANGELES – Clallam County’s unemployment rate shot up to nearly 19 percent last month. According to the state Employment Security Department, that’s up from March’s six percent, as nearly six thousand people were unemployed in Clallam
Jamestown S’Klallam’s casino to reopen
BLYN — 7 Cedars will reopen next week. Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe officials say they’ll reopen the casino in Blyn Monday morning after being shuttered for more than two months in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The casino
Yakima County seeing surge in covid cases
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Health officials are implementing new safety recommendations to battle a large outbreak of the coronavirus in Yakima County in central Washington. A major food producer, the area has recorded nearly 3,000 cases among
VA secretary fires back at critics of controversial COVID-19 treatment touted by Trump
iStock/Kiyoshi Tanno(WASHINGTON) — BY: MATT SEYLER Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie fired back at critics of his agency’s use of a controversial drug touted by President Donald Trump to treat COVID-19 patients in an interview with ABC
State F&W opens most coastal fishing
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington state officials say after two months of closures because of the pandemic concerns, many of the state’s coastal waters were reopened for fishing today. The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife said
Oso pastor sentenced for stealing donations
OAK HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — A pastor who stole Oso landslide donations was sentenced last week. Pastor Gary Ray was sentenced to 18 months in prison for a series of swindles totaling over $150,000. The funds and
Tree infection threatens NW cherry crop
PORTLAND, Ore. — Northwest cherries are due to hit the stores pretty soon, but there will fewer of them and probably at a higher price. Cherry industry officials in Washington and Oregon estimate a tree infection has
DOJ closing insider-trading investigations of Loeffler, Feinstein and Inhofe: Sources
lucky-photographer(PARAMUS, N.J.) — BY: MICHELLE STODDART and TRISH TURNER The Justice Department is closing its investigation into stock trades made by Sens. Kelly Loeffler, R-Ga., James Inhofe, R-Okla., and Diane Feinstein, D-Calif., shortly before markets plummeted amid
Boy Scout plays taps nightly outside NJ veterans home where scores have died
Melissa Saldana(PARAMUS, N.J.) — BY: TOM BROOKSBANK A Boy Scout has been playing taps every night outside a New Jersey nursing home where more than 100 veterans have died amid the coronavirus crisis and concluded his daily
'Nothing short of alarming': Despite stay-at-home orders, 49 people shot in Chicago in Memorial Day gun violence
ABC News(CHICAGO) — BY: BILL HUTCHINSON Despite stay-at-home orders firmly in place to blunt the spread of the coronavirus pandemic, the Memorial Day weekend saw an old scourge reemerge with a vengeance on the streets of Chicago: