'A let down': Bus driver shortages cancel kids' after school activities
Kids couldn't wait for their extracurricular activities to make a comeback this year, but they're not getting the full experience they were hoping for.
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'Kids are going to suffer': Local schools struggle to find staff, call on community to fill slots
Right now, transportation directors are driving bus routes. Teachers are filling in for each other during their prep periods, and principals are back in the classroom.
Packed In: 'We're losing time': Permitting delays back up builders by months on home construction
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Spokane needs more homes, but the pandemic's still putting a pinch on the housing market. Builders want to complete more homes,…
'Political Football': Spokane Sheriff defends anti-mandate messaging in hiring recruitment videos
SPOKANE, Wash. -- Washington state troopers who didn't want the vaccine and are out of a job may find an opening at the…
More Washington State Ferries runs halted amid crew shortage
The cutbacks are unprecedented in the nation’s largest ferry system, which operates as part of the state highway system that serves as many as 24 million passengers a year.
Providence Sacred Heart asks staff to shift job duties to help with COVID mission
Providence says this is the first time this "labor pool" model has been used in its Spokane hospitals.
Biden sees shortages to stop climate-change fueled wildfires
President Joe Biden is sounding the alarm about the need for more resources to fight a series of wildfires in western states, as climate change has worsened the spread and ferocity of the blazes. “Our resources are already being stretched…
Drug shortages prompt FDA to form task force
The US Food and Drug Administration is forming a Drug Shortages Task Force to look into the country's persistent drug shortages and find long-term solutions, according to a statement Thursday from the agency's commissioner, Dr. Scott Gottlieb.
75 days after Maria, this is life in St. Croix
The sound of rattling generators fill Tarik McMillan's ears when he wakes up.
