California workers will no longer be required to wear face masks in the workplace, as long as all employees in a single room are fully vaccinated against the coronavirus, according to new rules approved Thursday by California’s Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board. The change, expected to be effective June 15, comes after the board
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Here is the city of Bend’s road and traffic report for the week of June 7-13.
Continue ReadingA statue of colonial slave trader Edward Colston has gone on public display in Bristol, England, almost a year after it was toppled during Black Lives Matter demonstrations in the city. On June 7 last year, demonstrators denouncing historic and systemic racism and oppression defaced the controversial monument with red and blue graffiti. They used
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Roosevelt is a very active 5-year-old Australian shepherd mix, waiting for a new home at Redmond’s BrightSide Animal Center.
Continue ReadingThe US is pushing to have 70% of adults get at least one dose of the Covid-19 vaccine by July 4, but an expert said that number is important to reach at the state level too — and those states who are falling well below may be vulnerable to another outbreak. “There are 12 states
Continue ReadingHere’s a look at Operation Enduring Freedom, which began on October 7, 2001 with allied air strikes on Taliban and al Qaeda targets. The United States linked the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to al Qaeda, a group that operated under the Taliban regime’s protection in Afghanistan. The operation was launched to stop the Taliban
Continue ReadingAmerica’s job market recovery picked up some steam in May, with 559,000 positions added back to the economy. It was a second sizable miss of analyst expectations after a big disappointment in April. Economists had predicted 650,000 jobs added in May. The unemployment rate fell to 5.8%, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. This
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Russian tennis player Yana Sizikova was arrested in Paris on Thursday evening for sports corruption and fraud in an organized group, two French law enforcement sources have told CNN. She was arrested and taken into custody on Thursday for “sports corruption and fraud in an organized group, concerning acts that may have been committed in
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story RALEIGH, North Carolina (WTVD) — Twenty-seven days. That’s how long tenants at a Raleigh apartment complex have to find a new place to live. The units in southeast Raleigh, just off MLK Blvd., were recently sold. The low-income tenants who live there were told last month they have
Continue ReadingHate crimes against Asian people in New York City have increased by 335% this year when compared to the same period last year, according to the latest New York Police Department (NYPD) crime statistics report. From January 1 through May 31, the city recorded 87 hate crimes against Asians, compared with 20 such crimes for
Continue ReadingAs a pediatric infectious disease specialist, Dr. Amy Edwards has fielded a lot of questions from worried parents during the pandemic. As case numbers drop — among children, Covid-19 cases have fallen to levels not seen since October — the question she’s getting is: Do younger children really need to be vaccinated against Covid-19 when
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story GREENVILLE, North Carolina (WTVD) — Four teens died when a box truck crossed a median and hit their vehicle head on in Pitt County. North Carolina State Highway Patrol said it happened on US 264 west of Greenville just a few minutes before noon Thursday. The box truck
Continue ReadingThe number of African Americans serving on boards of directors for the nation’s largest corporations has remained dismally low this year despite the ongoing movement to increase C-suite diversity throughout the business world. Some of America’s most prominent companies are addressing the problem by backing the Black Boardroom Initiative, a new program unveiled Wednesday with
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Here is the Deschutes County road construction update for the week of June 6-11.
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — A suspect involved in a 29-hour barricade last week in the south valley took a babysitter and a 4-year-old child hostage after drilling a hole between two motel units, according to an arrest report from the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department. According to police,
Continue ReadingClick here for updates on this story LAS VEGAS (KVVU) — It’s been nearly a month since the disappearance and death of Amari Nicholson. The case of the 2-year-old boy gripped and angered the Las Vegas community. Now a social media army is not stopping their work to help other children. More than 7,500 people
Continue ReadingRussian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law Friday banning individuals designated as “extremists” from running for public offices, a move condemned by the opposition as an effort to further limit political competition. The new legislation was signed and posted on a government website on Friday, the day which also marks the birthday of jailed
Continue ReadingA magnitude 5.9 earthquake struck off the coast of Oregon early Friday, and the aftershocks included another 5.9 quake. But the U.S. Geological Survey says there’s no threat of a tsunami or damage to the coast.
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President Joe Biden on Friday touted the economic progress the US has made in its recovery from the coronavirus pandemic after the government reported 559,000 jobs were added in May. “No other major economy in the world is growing as fast as ours. No other major economy is gaining jobs as quickly as ours. And
Continue ReadingThe cameras seem to always be rolling on the Kardashian-Jenner family and now we get a behind-the-scenes look at Kim Kardashian’s breakup with Kanye West. The reality star filed for divorce from the controversial rapper in February, and in a clip from “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” released Thursday, Kardashian is shown getting pretty emotional
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