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FILE- In this April 17, 2020, file photo, a patient is wheeled into Cobble Hill Health Center by emergency medical workers in the Brooklyn borough of New York. A grim blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents, a tiny slice of the population that represents a shockingly high proportion of Americans who have perished in the pandemic.

Grim blame game over virus deaths in besieged nursing homes

June 15, 2020, 2:45pm Health

A grim blame game with partisan overtones is breaking out over COVID-19 deaths among nursing home residents, a tiny slice of the population that represents a shockingly high proportion of Americans who have perished in the pandemic. Read story

24 Hour Fitness declared bankruptcy and is closing one of three Vancouver locations.(iStock.com)

24 Hour Fitness files for bankruptcy, closes one Vancouver location

June 15, 2020, 1:17pm Business

Health club 24 Hour Fitness is closing one of its Vancouver locations and about 130 others as the company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. About 300 locations are set to remain open, the company reported Monday. Read story

People wearing protective face masks to help curb the spread of the new coronavirus gather outside a hospital to seek information about getting the nucleic acid test in Beijing, Monday, June 15, 2020. Beijing has reinstated measures to control the spread of the coronavirus amid a growing outbreak.

Europe reopens, Beijing outbreak revives need for vigilance

June 15, 2020, 9:13am Nation & World

European countries reopened borders Monday after a three-month coronavirus shutdown, although international visitors are still being kept away and there was uncertainty over whether many Europeans will quickly embrace travel outside their home countries. Read story

A Fourth of July 1917 parade float moves past Ninth and Main streets in downtown Vancouver.

Clark County hungers for identity, meaning without its annual fair, fireworks, festivals

June 14, 2020, 6:01am Clark County Life

Clark County hungers for identity and meaning without its annual fair, fireworks, festivals Read story

Local View: Reboot of economy requires reopening of schools, businesses

June 14, 2020, 6:01am Columns

I am not a scientist or an epidemiologist. I’m a school superintendent, a father and a pragmatist. I’m also an advocate for Vancouver’s children, families and community. And I believe it is time to get our students back to schools, our families back to work and our businesses back to… Read story

Motorists cross the Interstate 5 Bridge from Portland into Vancouver. Bridge traffic levels declined sharply during the first weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, but they've begun to recover -- and traffic officials say commuters should still plan for severe congestion in September when the northbound bridge span will close for maintenance for up to nine days.

I-5, I-205 bridge crossings to and from Clark County plummet early on during pandemic

June 14, 2020, 6:00am Clark County News

Traffic numbers on the Interstate 5 Bridge and Interstate 205 Bridge plummeted during the early weeks of the coronavirus pandemic, with daily vehicle crossings on I-5 dropping from a weekday average of about 139,000 in the first week of March to about 85,000 at the start of April. Read story

Report: COVID-19 cases on the rise in Washington

June 13, 2020, 9:02pm Newsletter

The Washington Department of Health says coronavirus infections are on the increase in the eastern and western sides of the state. Read story

Paramilitary police stand guard on a street near the Xinfadi wholesale food market district in Beijing, Saturday, June 13, 2020. Beijing closed the city's largest wholesale food market Saturday after the discovery of seven cases of the new coronavirus in the previous two days.

China reports 57 new virus cases

June 13, 2020, 9:01pm Nation & World

China on Sunday reported its highest daily total of new coronavirus cases in two months after the capital’s biggest wholesale food market was shut down following a resurgence in local infections. Read story

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