Author: PNW Live

With a push beginning for a national vote-by-mail system to mitigate risks presented by COVID-19, Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman is helping lead the charge. Could coronavirus have US voting by mail in November election? The vote-by-mail option first…

While one might expect ambulances to be out en masse during a pandemic, Seattle-area 911 calls have actually been down in recent weeks. UW Medicine testing app designed to predict next major outbreak One EMT didn’t want to provide his…

Gov. Jay Inslee announced Monday that private and public K-12 schools across Washington will be closed for the remainder of the school year. “All schools will continue distance learning through the end of this school year,” Inslee said. Live coronavirus…

In 2018, State Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s office was able to finally get a full inventory of the number of backlogged rape kits in Washington through the state’s Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI). Thousands of rape kits gathering dust will…

Sound Transit finally has made the decision to shut down most of its job sites, asking that they be secured and closed Monday. How Washington’s stay-at-home order will affect construction projects This is something we have been asking Sound Transit…

Boeing is taking another crack at launching its astronaut ferrying capsule called the “Starliner.” Can the Northwest compete in the coming space race? Boeing plans another unmanned launch of the space taxi in the late fall, hoping to put the…

Washington state health officials are now recommending that you wear a mask any time you are in public and can’t guarantee your social distancing. If you’ve been out in public, you know the definition of mask is pretty loose. How…

With Boeing opting to extend its suspension of Puget Sound production operations indefinitely, thousands of workers will soon be scrambling for paychecks. Boeing move to shut down Puget Sound production is unprecedented Boeing’s 10 days of paid leave for those…

A handful of models disagree about what the timeline of the coronavirus in the U.S. could look like in the months ahead, something University of Washington biology professor Carl Bergstrom expanded on in a recent thread on Twitter. Will coronavirus…

While the coronavirus continues to spread across the U.S., things may finally be looking up here in Washington state, according to the latest numbers from UW’s predictive model. Understanding how researchers are predicting spread of coronavirus In late March, UW’s…