covid 19

It's been a few years since COVID-19 brought a screeching halt to our society and changed the way we live. The virus is still out there, but we're not seeing it in the kinds of numbers that were so frightening when it first began.

A hearing in Douglas County Superior Court was held Tuesday on the claim of 55-year-old Christian Edward White that his trial in a Waterville courtroom was closed to the public.

“When we go to work and we’re short and it’s a bad day, somebody died when they didn’t have to,” Sara Morgan Bergenholtz said. "That's why people are leaving.”

The attorney representing the 94 plaintiffs filed a motion last Thursday, saying Judge Brian Huber dismissed the case without considering Confluence Health's failure to accommodate their religious practices.

(Ottawa, ON, Canada)  --  Americans who aren't vaccinated against COVID-19 will be allowed to enter Canada again starting this weekend.  That's after top Canadian officials announced border measures would end October 1st.  Those rules previously included proof of vaccination along with COVID testing prior to or upon arrival north of the border.  Wearing a face ma...

PASCO, Wash. - The Benton Franklin Health District is offering a pop up vaccine clinic on Sunday, April 11.   They have 200 appointments available from 8:30 am to 4 pm. at the CBC-West location on 3110 W. Argent Rd., Pasco, WA 99301. They will be administering the one dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine.   It's ...

TRI-CITIES, Wash. - The Tri-Cities housing market has shown a surprising trend - rather than sales sinking, real estate exploded in the last year. Ron Almberg, president elect of the Tri-City Association of Realtors, says the market only slowed down for about two months, "but then as soon as June hit, the market just caught on fire and it was busier than ever ... Read More ...