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Chris Jordan, maintenance manager for Horseshoe Beach, tries to find a water shutoff valve amid the rubble of the destroyed city hall in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024.

Supplies, emergency workers rushed to North Carolina while Florida digs out from Helene’s damage

Chris Jordan, maintenance manager for Horseshoe Beach, tries to find a water shutoff valve amid the rubble of the destroyed city hall in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, in Horseshoe Beach, Fla., Sunday, Sept. 29, 2024.

September 29, 2024, 9:21am Latest News

Authorities rushed to airlift supplies and restore communications and roads in flooded Asheville, North Carolina, on Sunday as residents along the storm-battered Florida coast gathered for church services amid the wreckage of Hurricane Helene. Read story

FILE - A student raises their hand in a classroom at Tussahaw Elementary school Aug. 4, 2021, in McDonough, Ga. According to test results released by the Georgia Department of Education on Friday, July 26, 2024, Georgia students in some grades approached pre-pandemic scores in the 2023-2024 school year, while other grades did not.

UW study shows how pandemic affected teen boys and girls differently

FILE - A student raises their hand in a classroom at Tussahaw Elementary school Aug. 4, 2021, in McDonough, Ga. According to test results released by the Georgia Department of Education on Friday, July 26, 2024, Georgia students in some grades approached pre-pandemic scores in the 2023-2024 school year, while other grades did not.

September 29, 2024, 6:05am Health

Being a teen during the first part of the COVID pandemic meant experiencing many milestones — the first day of high school, birthdays, graduation — from behind a computer screen. Read story

A delivery vehicle that has been grounded from a crack in its rear light is seen near a sign that notes the distribution location, DAX8, at Johnathon Ervin&rsquo;s distribution site for Amazon products on Friday, May 5, 2023 in Palmdale, CA. Ervin has decided to voluntarily unionize the company and wonders if Amazon is retaliating against his company.

Amazon demands a lot from its drivers. Now they’re pushing back

A delivery vehicle that has been grounded from a crack in its rear light is seen near a sign that notes the distribution location, DAX8, at Johnathon Ervin&rsquo;s distribution site for Amazon products on Friday, May 5, 2023 in Palmdale, CA. Ervin has decided to voluntarily unionize the company and wonders if Amazon is retaliating against his company.

September 29, 2024, 6:04am Business

Rajpal Singh sweltered on his routes, delivering hundreds of packages every day for Amazon to homes on twisty dirt roads in the hills and valleys surrounding Lancaster and Palmdale, California. Temperatures in his van commonly climbed above 100 degrees. Read story

A vineyard in the lower Yakima Valley near Zillah.

After two years of drought in the Yakima Basin, could relief be on the way?

A vineyard in the lower Yakima Valley near Zillah.

September 29, 2024, 6:02am Business

The reality of this year’s drought is unavoidable for farmers and orchardists in Central Washington. Read story

Camille Stevens-Rumann holds a grid used to organize seedlings at a reforestation test plot Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Bellvue, Colo., at the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire burn area.

As many forests fail to recover from wildfires, replanting efforts face huge odds — and obstacles

Camille Stevens-Rumann holds a grid used to organize seedlings at a reforestation test plot Tuesday, June 11, 2024, in Bellvue, Colo., at the 2020 Cameron Peak Fire burn area.

September 29, 2024, 6:00am Business

Camille Stevens-Rumann crouched in the dirt and leaned over evergreen seedlings, measuring how much each had grown in seven months. Read story

From left, Tom Bosley, Angela Lansbury, William Windom and Michael Horton in &ldquo;Murder, She Wrote.&rdquo; (Globe Photos/Zuma Press/TNS)

Nina Metz: On its 40th anniversary, ‘Murder, She Wrote’ remains one of the best of its kind

From left, Tom Bosley, Angela Lansbury, William Windom and Michael Horton in &ldquo;Murder, She Wrote.&rdquo; (Globe Photos/Zuma Press/TNS)

September 29, 2024, 6:00am Entertainment

“I may be wrong. But frankly, I doubt it.” That line, or words to that effect, are a common refrain on “Murder, She Wrote.” It takes a certain amount of flinty self-confidence for a character to pull that off without sounding smug. We live in uncertain times. Hollywood is in… Read story

Cal Fire firefighter Eric Schnetz of Georgetown works to extinguish the Crozier fire in El Dorado County on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024.

California firefighters will soon have a 66-hour work week. Why Cal Fire will make the change

Cal Fire firefighter Eric Schnetz of Georgetown works to extinguish the Crozier fire in El Dorado County on Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024.

September 28, 2024, 5:38pm Latest News

When Tim Edwards started working as a full-time firefighter for the state in 1994, his schedule was grueling. Read story

A polar bear sculpture greets patrons, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, at the Churchill Public Library in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A.

In the gateway to the Arctic, fat, ice and polar bears are crucial. All three are in trouble

A polar bear sculpture greets patrons, Wednesday, Aug. 7, 2024, at the Churchill Public Library in Churchill, Manitoba. (AP Photo/Joshua A.

September 28, 2024, 2:02pm Latest News

Searching for polar bears where the Churchill River dumps into Canada’s massive Hudson Bay, biologist Geoff York scans a region that’s on a low fat, low ice diet because of climate change. Read story

Traffic is backed up seemingly everywhere before a Sunday rock concert at the RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater: on Interstate 5, on its offramps, on Northeast 179th Street and on Northeast Delfel Road.

Traffic nightmares around the Clark County amphitheater have been playing the same tune for 21 years

Traffic is backed up seemingly everywhere before a Sunday rock concert at the RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater: on Interstate 5, on its offramps, on Northeast 179th Street and on Northeast Delfel Road.

September 28, 2024, 6:14am Business Subscriber Exclusive

Twenty-one years ago, a new amphitheater alongside the Clark County Fairgrounds opened its doors. Read story

Cassidy Forsburg, 2, of Battle Ground, sits in the pumpkin patch at Pomeroy Farm in Yacolt on Oct. 15, 2022.

Clark County has a bumper crop of pumpkin spots

Cassidy Forsburg, 2, of Battle Ground, sits in the pumpkin patch at Pomeroy Farm in Yacolt on Oct. 15, 2022.

September 28, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Life

Autumn is all about pumpkins. It’s practically a pumpkinpalooza out there, with pumpkins piled on porches, perched on patios and painted in pretty colors — not to mention the preponderance of pumpkin pies. We present you with pleasing news: Local pumpkin patches are presently primed for pumpkin-picking, where people can… Read story