Local health care workers are feeling the Omicron surge
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – With about 500 new cases of Covid-19 reported in the last 2 weeks in Clallam County, mostly due to the emergence of the omicron variant, health care workers are once again
OMC Foundation’s Bruce Skinner selected for college bowl Hall of Fame
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – College bowl games have an organization called the Bowl Season Association. Its membership consists of all Division I college football bowl games. And we’ve just learned that Bruce Skinner, the Executive
Local health care workers are feeling the Omicron surge
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – With about 500 new cases of Covid-19 reported in the last 2 weeks in Clallam County, mostly due to the emergence of the omicron variant, health care workers are once again
OMC Foundation’s Bruce Skinner selected for college bowl Hall of Fame
By Pepper Fisher PORT ANGELES – College bowl games have an organization called the Bowl Season Association. Its membership consists of all Division I college football bowl games. And we’ve just learned that Bruce Skinner, the Executive
European countries tighten COVID-19 restrictions as omicron spreads
Chesnot/Getty Images (LONDON) — France this week became the latest European country to tighten its coronavirus restrictions, with nations across the continent posting record numbers of COVID-19 infections in an omicron-fueled surge. On Dec. 21, the WHO’s
The year in tech: Space tourism lifts off, NFTs go mainstream and Big Tech faces reckoning
Mario Tama/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — Over the past year, routine space tourism emerged from science fiction to reality, digital art you can’t even touch auctioned for millions at Christie’s, and malicious attacks emanating from cyberspace crippled
Harry Reid, the former 5-term US senator from Nevada, has died at 82 following cancer battle
Brendan Hoffman/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) — Harry Mason Reid, the former five-term U.S. senator from Nevada who led Senate Democrats for a decade spanning the Bush and Obama presidencies, died Tuesday, his wife, Landra Reid, confirmed in a
Hong Kong pro-democracy news outlet Stand News to close after police raid
Anthony Kwan/Getty Images (HONG KONG) — Hong Kong’s national security police arrested six people linked to Stand News, an independent online media outlet, in another sign that the city’s once-thriving press freedom is taking a turn for
Russia shuts down human rights group that recorded Stalin-era crimes
NATALIA KOLESNIKOVA/AFP via Getty Images (MOSCOW) — In what has been described as a watershed moment for President Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on dissent, Russia’s Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered the closure of Memorial International, the country’s oldest
Port Angeles man booked on drug and weapons charges
PORT ANGELES – Police arrested a Port Angeles man on Christmas Eve, suspected of dealing drugs and found to be in possession of an illegal, loaded sawed-off shotgun in his car. Jesse Johns first got the attention