Meet the finalists for Sequim City Manager
SEQUIM — The Sequim City Council settled on 5 candidates for the City Manager job Thursday night. Their names and bios were released Friday afternoon and interim City Manager Charisse Deschenes’ name is among them. The other
Pilot saved after Edmonds marina crash
EDMONDS, Wash. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot was rescued after a small plane crashed into Puget Sound and sank off Edmonds Marina, just outside of the breakwater. Edmonds Police said in a Twitter post Thursday afternoon
Housing Authority exec sentenced in fraud case
Tacoma – A former Pierce County Housing Authority executive was sentenced today in U.S. District Court in Tacoma to 51 months in prison for wire fraud in connection with her scheme to steal nearly $7 million. Cova
Seattle teen shootout leads to injuries, arrest
SEATTLE (AP) — Authorities say a 17-year-old boy suffered life-threatening injuries and a 14-year-old was in police custody after the two exchanged gunfire outside a Seattle school. Seattle police spokeswoman Valerie Carson said one teen was sitting
Hospital situation critical throughout the region
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – Hospital care and capacities in the region have reached their limit as the Delta variant spreads like wildfire. So said Clallam County Health Officer Dr. Allison Berry at Friday morning’s Covid-19
'Very small number' of Afghan evacuees flagged for concern by CBP at bases around the world
Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection said a “very small number” of Afghan evacuees have been “flagged for concern” during their vetting and screening at military bases around the world. “It’s exactly
Meet the finalists for Sequim City Manager
SEQUIM — The Sequim City Council settled on 5 candidates for the City Manager job Thursday night. Their names and bios were released Friday afternoon and interim City Manager Charisse Deschenes’ name is among them. The other
Family of youngest woman elected to Kandahar City Council escapes after Taliban takeover
Aleksandra Tokarz/iStock (KABUL, Afghanistan) — Sarina Faizy, 23, just graduated from William & Mary with a master’s in international law, and she said she’d hoped to celebrate with her family — instead she’s struggling to stay in
Delta variant more likely to lead to hospitalization among unvaccinated compared to alpha variant, study finds
Tomas Ragina/iStock (NEW YORK) — A new, peer reviewed study estimates that the delta variant of COVID-19 doubles the risk of being hospitalized compared to the prior alpha variant among unvaccinated people. The delta variant is the
After 3-month probe, intelligence community 'divided' on COVID-19's origins
loops7/iStock (WASHINGTON) — U.S. intelligence agencies remain “divided on the most likely origins of COVID-19,” after President Joe Biden’s 90-day push for his intel community to “redouble their efforts” to find a more definitive conclusion regarding the