PASCO, Wash. -- A local asparagus packing plant has had 16 employees test positive for COVID-19, according to spokespersons from the Benton-Franklin Health District and Gourmet Trading Company. Gourmet Farms Washington employs over 700 seasonal workers at its Pasco processing…
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- As Washington counties move into Phase 2, Gov. Jay Inslee has announced new guidelines for re-opening libraries and drive-in theaters Tuesday. Libraries will be able to re-open in Phase 2 of the Washington Safe Start plan if…
SEATTLE, Wash. -- The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has awarded $31.9 million to the University of Washington for their COVID-19 response. This amount will reimburse 75% of the costs for buying PPE, medical supplies and durable equipment for the…
MOSES LAKE, Wash. -- The Grant County Health District is seeing a rise in COVID-19 cases over the past two weeks. An outbreak at the Summer Wood Alzheimer's Special Care Center in Moses Lake has left one individual hospitalized with…
KENNEWICK, Wash. -- Uncle Sam's Saloon announced that an employee has tested positive for the coronavirus. The announcement was made on their Facebook page around noon on Sunday. The post said that the business will close until all of their…
First came a high fever, drenching sweats and muscle aches. Then, almost a month later, a weird numbness that spread down the right side of her body. Darlene Gildersleeve thought she had recovered from COVID-19. Doctors said she just needed…
Walla Walla County has been granted a variance for reopening under Phase 2 of Washington's Safe Start plan, county officials announced Wednesday morning. All businesses in the county prepared to follow Governor Jay Inslee’s guidelines are now allowed to reopen,…
SEATTLE (AP) — UW Medicine announced furloughs of about 4,000 members of its unionized workforce in spite of the healthcare-system’s position at the forefront of COVID-19 response efforts both locally and globally. KOMO-TV reports the decision comes a week after…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Many laid-off workers who lost health insurance in the coronavirus shutdown soon face the first deadlines to qualify for fallback coverage under the Affordable Care Act. Taxpayer-subsidized health insurance is available for a modest cost — sometimes…
Millions of Americans are getting ready to emerge from coronavirus lockdowns and venture outdoors to celebrate Memorial Day weekend at beaches, cookouts and family outings, raising concern among public health officials that large gatherings could cause outbreaks to come roaring…
Tattoo shops are closed until phase 2 of Washington's reopening plan but when artists do get back to work, they assume their shops will look similar to before the pandemic. "Everyone…
PASCO, Wash. -- It’s a disease that isn’t slowed by social distancing or using hand sanitizer, and it can touch the lives of anyone. “Every time I stutter on a word or something like…
SEATTLE (AP) — Seattle Children’s hospital is again coping with a mold in its operating rooms that has persisted at the hospital for nearly 20 years and has been linked to seven deaths. There are no known new illnesses connected…
PASCO, Wash. -- A food distribution was held Tuesday in Pasco to facilitate those in the community without a car. Ben Franklin Transit and Second Harvest, with the help of National Guard members, held the event at the 22nd Avenue…
(CNN) -- The father of a 14-year-old boy now recovering from a coronavirus-related syndrome says all the symptoms began with a slight fever and some rashes on his son's hands in mid-April. The condition, which doctors are calling multisystem inflammatory…
PASCO, Wash. -- Starting Monday, dental offices and other healthcare providers around Washington are allowed to reopen for non-emergency procedures. Proclamation 20-24, which temporarily prohibited these procedures in order to keep the focus on COVID-19 patients, expired Monday at noon. Gov.…
ELLENSBURG, Wash. -- Kittitas County will have to wait another week to see if it can move to Phase 2 of the governor's reopening plan. Washington Secretary of Health John Wiesman told the Kittitas County Incident Management Team that the…
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lynn Shelton, an independent filmmaker who directed “Humpday” and “Little Fires Everywhere,” has died. She was 54. Shelton’s publicist, Adam Kersh, said in a statement Saturday that she died Friday in Los Angeles from an unidentified…
Phyllis George, the former Miss America who became a female sportscasting pioneer on CBS’s “The NFL Today” and served as the first lady of Kentucky, has died. She was 70. A family spokeswoman said George died Thursday at a Lexington,…
SEATTLE (AP) — The number of deaths in Washington because of the coronavirus has reached 1,000, the Washington State Department of Health reported Saturday. The agency added eight more deaths and listed the total number of confirmed cases at 18,288.…
Tyson Foods, Inc. on Friday released the results of its Wallula workers' COVID-19 test results following an outbreak that likely started in March. The facility-wide testing shows 277 of 1,482 workers there tested positive for coronavirus. More than half of…
OLYMPIA, Wash. --- Cuban-born emergency room physician Dr. Raul Garcia announced his bid for Washington governor Friday in Olympia. Dr. Garcia is currently working on the frontlines of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Tri-Cities. He also runs a small clinic…
Taco Bell in Cle Elum and a coffee house in Ellensburg shut down for deep cleaning after learning people with COVID-19 had been inside, health officials said Friday. The Kittitas County Incident Management Team said D&M Coffee Co. had a…
*This article has been updated from its original version to include new comments from Tyson Farm workers and their supporters put up signs and held a vigil Friday memorializing three workers they say died of COVID-19 after becoming infected while…
