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FILE - Dec. 8, 2020, file photo, a healthcare worker wears personal protective equipment as she speaks with a patient at a mobile testing location for COVID-19 in Auburn, Maine. A survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds about 4 in 10 Americans say they are extremely or very worried about themselves or a family member being infected with the virus, about the same as in October and slightly lower than in surveys conducted in March and in July. (AP Photo/Robert F.

AP-NORC poll: America’s virus concerns stable as cases spike

FILE - Dec. 8, 2020, file photo, a healthcare worker wears personal protective equipment as she speaks with a patient at a mobile testing location for COVID-19 in Auburn, Maine. A survey from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds about 4 in 10 Americans say they are extremely or very worried about themselves or a family member being infected with the virus, about the same as in October and slightly lower than in surveys conducted in March and in July. (AP Photo/Robert F.

December 14, 2020, 4:30pm Nation & World Free

Deaths from the coronavirus pandemic are spiking across the country, yet a new poll finds little increase in alarm among Americans about COVID-19 infections and no significant change in opinion about how the government should act to slow the spread. Read story

Herrera Beutler pushes to extend Paycheck Protection Plan

December 14, 2020, 4:00pm Clark County News

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler has revived her push to extend a program that delivers forgivable loans to businesses that retain their employees through COVID-19 closures. Read story

U.S. COVID-19 deaths top 300,000 just as vaccinations begin

December 14, 2020, 3:10pm Latest News Free

The U.S. death toll from the coronavirus topped 300,000 Monday just as the country began dispensing COVID-19 shots in a monumental campaign to conquer the outbreak. Read story

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Clark County records 489 new COVID-19 cases since Friday

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December 14, 2020, 2:26pm Clark County Health Free

Clark County recorded 489 new COVID-19 cases but no new deaths since Friday, according to data released Monday. Read story

University of Washington Medical Center Montlake campus pharmacy administration resident Derek Pohlmeyer, left, and UWMC pharmacy director Michael Alwan transport a box containing Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines toward a waiting vehicle headed to the UW Medical Center&#039;s other hospital campuses on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Seattle.

COVID-19 vaccine arrives in Washington

University of Washington Medical Center Montlake campus pharmacy administration resident Derek Pohlmeyer, left, and UWMC pharmacy director Michael Alwan transport a box containing Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines toward a waiting vehicle headed to the UW Medical Center&#039;s other hospital campuses on Monday, Dec. 14, 2020, in Seattle.

December 14, 2020, 12:30pm Health Free

SEATTLE -- The COVID-19 vaccine has begun arriving in Washington and authorities are getting shots ready for people in high-risk categories who will be eligible to receive it in the first distribution phase. Read story

Youth Hand in Hand -- put on by students, for students -- launched in the spring as a way for local high school students to teach virtual courses during the COVID-19 pandemic. They&#039;ve since expanded their free services to offer tutoring sessions in a variety of academic subjects.

Clark County high school students try their hand at tutoring their peers

Youth Hand in Hand -- put on by students, for students -- launched in the spring as a way for local high school students to teach virtual courses during the COVID-19 pandemic. They&#039;ve since expanded their free services to offer tutoring sessions in a variety of academic subjects.

December 13, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

Want to take an extracurricular virtual class or need online tutoring? Read story

Debbie Russell, treasurer and co-founder of nonprofit group Loving Them Forward, helps make gift baskets to be given out to caregivers in Clark County.

Vancouver nonprofit assembles gift bags for Clark County caregivers

Debbie Russell, treasurer and co-founder of nonprofit group Loving Them Forward, helps make gift baskets to be given out to caregivers in Clark County.

December 13, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

Everything in Christina Keys’ garage seemed to be working as smooth as an assembly line could. Read story

Rod Cook, left, helps load boxed-up bicycle kits into the back of a volunteer&#039;s pickup truck while Hayden Trent, right, repositions other boxes on Saturday morning at Taylor Transport in the Barberton area. Pre-registered volunteers drove though the warehouse to collect new bikes for home assembly. The bikes will be passed along to needy local families at Christmas.

Annual holiday bike build in Clark County rolls with changes due to COVID-19 pandemic

Rod Cook, left, helps load boxed-up bicycle kits into the back of a volunteer&#039;s pickup truck while Hayden Trent, right, repositions other boxes on Saturday morning at Taylor Transport in the Barberton area. Pre-registered volunteers drove though the warehouse to collect new bikes for home assembly. The bikes will be passed along to needy local families at Christmas.

December 12, 2020, 2:48pm Clark County News

The scene may have been different, but the spirit was exactly the same. Just ask Santa Claus, merrily boogieing to thumping dance tunes and schmoozing his way down the line of volunteers in cars who waited on Saturday morning, distantly and patiently, for boxes of brand new bicycle parts to… Read story

People lights a candle next to an image the Virgin of Guadalupe outside the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Nationwide, devotees of the Virgin make a pilgrimage to the Basilica in honor of her Dec. 12 feast day, but the Catholic Church announced the closure of the Basilica for this year&#039;s pilgrimage due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Pandemic forces ‘virtual’ Virgin of Guadalupe day in Mexico

People lights a candle next to an image the Virgin of Guadalupe outside the Basilica of Guadalupe in Mexico City, Friday, Dec. 11, 2020. Nationwide, devotees of the Virgin make a pilgrimage to the Basilica in honor of her Dec. 12 feast day, but the Catholic Church announced the closure of the Basilica for this year&#039;s pilgrimage due to the coronavirus pandemic.

December 12, 2020, 2:32pm Nation & World

For the first time in decades, Mexico’s Roman Catholics were forced on Saturday to abandon a religious pilgrimage in which millions visit Mexico City’s Basilica of Guadalupe on Dec. 12. Read story

FILE - Charley Pride performs &quot;Kiss An Angel Good Morning&quot; at the 50th annual CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn. on Nov. 3, 2016. Pride will get a lifetime achievement award at the CMA Awards in November.

Charley Pride, country music’s first Black star, dies at age 86

FILE - Charley Pride performs &quot;Kiss An Angel Good Morning&quot; at the 50th annual CMA Awards in Nashville, Tenn. on Nov. 3, 2016. Pride will get a lifetime achievement award at the CMA Awards in November.

December 12, 2020, 2:29pm Entertainment

Charley Pride, country music’s first Black star whose rich baritone on such hits as “Kiss an Angel Good Morning” helped sell millions of records and made him the first Black member of the Country Music Hall of Fame, has died. He was 86. Read story