April 20, 2020, 11:15am Clark County Health Free
Clark County Public Health confirmed 19 new COVID-19 cases Monday morning in its first update since Friday. Read story
April 20, 2020, 7:14am Latest News
The plan was solid, but its execution began as a “dumpster fire.” Read story
April 19, 2020, 6:05am Business Free
The Washington state Employment Security Department can handle 600 callers at any given time. But between March 8 and April 11 — when the state’s economy was bulldozed by the novel coronavirus outbreak — the office received new unemployment claims requests from nearly 640,000 people. Read story
April 19, 2020, 6:00am Churches & Religion
With the Vancouver Navigation Center open limited hours and many public places closed, resources for people who are unhoused are opening or expanding around the city. Read story
April 18, 2020, 7:31pm Nation & World
As a clearer picture emerges of COVID-19’s decidedly deadly toll on black Americans, leaders are demanding a reckoning of the systemic policies they say have made many African Americans far more vulnerable to the virus, including inequity in access to health care and economic opportunity. Read story
April 18, 2020, 6:57pm Politics
President Donald Trump, in a roller-coaster week of reversals and contradictions, told governors to “call your own shots” on lifting stay-at-home orders once the coronavirus threat subsides. But then he took to Twitter to push some to reopen their economies quickly and tell them it was their job to ramp… Read story
April 18, 2020, 6:04pm Nation & World
The World Health Organization has called it a “massacre.” The Health Ministry sent in inspectors. Prosecutors are investigating, and an appalled mayor said the managers of a residential facility she ordered sealed had “jeopardized the life and health of the most fragile.” Read story
April 17, 2020, 11:26am Clark County Health Free
Clark County Public Health confirmed Friday morning that a man in his 80s is the 16th, and latest, COVID-19 death in Clark County. Public Health also confirmed 12 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the county’s total to 277 cases. Read story
April 17, 2020, 9:14am Latest News
President Donald Trump urged supporters to “LIBERATE” three states led by Democratic governors Friday, apparently encouraging protests against stay-at-home mandates aimed at stopping the coronavirus. At least two states under Republican leadership took their first steps toward easing restrictions. Read story
April 17, 2020, 9:11am Nation & World
While many Americans are filled with fear, Melissa Ackison says the coronavirus pandemic has filled her with anger. The stay-at-home orders are government overreach, the conservative Ohio state Senate candidate says, and the labeling of some workers as “essential” arbitrary. Read story
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