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| Boeing will resume work in phases next week, including a restart of 737 MAX production preparations | Boeing said Thursday it will end its local factory shutdown next week and resume all commercial airplane production at its Puget Sound and Moses Lake facilities. About 27,000 local employees will be back on the job. Among the measures to protect them from the novel coronavirus is鈥 |
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| State braces for a flood of unemployment claims as eligibility expands | Washington state officials are bracing for a 鈥渢sunami鈥 of new claims for unemployment benefits from workers who were laid off or furloughed because of the coronavirus pandemic. The expanded and enhanced unemployment benefits provided by the federal stimulus package go into effect on鈥 |
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| Should I book my summer vacation trip now? Here鈥檚 a guide to deciding | Should you book summer travel right now? If you鈥檙e planning to visit the Pacific Northwest, you can fly round-trip to Seattle from Los Angeles for $117 in basic economy on legacy carriers. Deal site Travelzoo is offering the Handlery Hotel in San Diego for as little as $99 a night in June and鈥 |
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| Inslee says Washington鈥檚 economy will likely eventually reopen in phases, not all at once, amid coronavirus crisis | Gov. Jay Inslee Wednesday said Washington鈥檚 economy will likely reopen in phases once state officials believe society can safely function amid the new coronavirus. That plan could look something like a reverse process of how the state shut down in March in response to the outbreak鈥 |
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| Reopening could require thousands more public health workers | Before stay-at-home orders are lifted, the nation鈥檚 public health agencies want to be ready to douse any new sparks of coronavirus infection 鈥 a task they say could require tens of thousands more investigators to call people who test positive, track down their contacts and get them into鈥 |
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| Washington state鈥檚 total unemployment claims climb to nearly 600,000 as coronavirus pushes nationwide tally toward Depression territory | Last week Suzi LeVine, head of Washington鈥檚 Employment Security Department, warned of in coming weeks as the鈥 |
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| Another sign the curve is bending: Positive coronavirus tests at UW peaked March 28 | A new analysis of tests conducted at the UW Medicine Virology lab adds to the evidence that Washington is bending the curve on the novel coronavirus epidemic. The percentage of specimens positive for the virus appears to have peaked on March 28 and has been trending downward ever since.鈥 |
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| Summer events should be canceled due to coronavirus, Whatcom Health Director says | The Whatcom County Health Department is recommending that communities cancel summertime events throughout the county due to the coronavirus pandemic, according to a press release sent Tuesday, April 14. 鈥淲e see positive effects of the efforts to contain the virus, in large part due to鈥 |
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| Whatcom-B.C. border traffic will remain slow with Canadian coronavirus quarantines | The slowdown in traffic flow has been dramatic in places like Blaine. During the first two weeks of April, the two Blaine crossing saw just over 2,000 passenger vehicle entries into the U.S.; typically there are 155,000-160,000 passenger vehicles during this same time frame. That鈥檚 according to鈥 |
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| Washington young adults are getting slammed financially by coronavirus crisis, new survey shows | Much of the news coverage around the novel coronavirus has, understandably, focused on seniors. They are at higher risk for developing more serious complications, or dying, from the virus. But a new survey of Washington residents shows that when it comes to financial survival, our鈥 |