Sequester To Result In 4,800 Hanford Layoffs, Furloughs
RICHLAND, Wash. – As many as 4,800 workers could be furloughed or laid off at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in southeast Washington. It’s the result of the federal spending cuts known as the...
View ArticleSequester Suspends Tuition Assistance For Troops
JOINT BASE LEWIS-McCHORD, Wash. - The Defense Department has suspended a workplace benefit cherished by many soldiers, airmen and Coast Guardsmen. The agency has put tuition assistance on indefinite...
View ArticleSong About Hanford Furloughs Picks Up Viewers On YouTube
RICHLAND, Wash. -- Jason Strickling and his wife Lana of Pasco, Wash. are planning some extra time with the kids this summer. That’s because she works for a Hanford Nuclear Reservation contractor in...
View ArticleSome Northwest Cities Explore Ways To Keep Airport Control Towers Open
Some Northwest cities and counties are exploring whether to use local or private money to keep their airport control towers open. By mid-June, the federal government plans to close the control towers...
View ArticleAlaska Air Group CEO Calls FAA Furloughs 'Unfathomable'
The head of Alaska Airlines has choice words for the air traffic controller furloughs that started Sunday. Alaska Air Group CEO Brad Tilden Thursday called the travel impact of automatic federal budget...
View ArticleControl Towers At Smaller Northwest Airports Likely To Get Reprieve
The White House says President Obama will sign a fast-tracked Congressional bill to end the furloughs of air traffic controllers. Operators of smaller Northwest airports hope the measure also stops the...
View ArticleAir Force Says New Air Refueling Tanker Program On Track
Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane is planning a public memorial service for three of its airmen killed in a mid-air explosion over central Asia. The cause of the air refueling tanker accident last...
View ArticleFederal Sequester Turns Employment Workers Into Job Seekers
In the next couple of months, many employment office workers in the Northwest will join the unemployed. State labor agencies are having to make cutbacks in staffing. It's due to a combination of the...
View ArticleBusy Summer Ahead At North Idaho Superfund Site
Federal spending may be down because of the sequester, but this is expected to be one of the busiest summers ever at a federal superfund site in north Idaho. EPA officials said Tuesday they plan to...
View ArticleForest Service Cuts Maintenance Projects In Sequester Response
Remember the "sequester" cuts? The dust is finally settling and the consequences becoming real for a program in the U.S. Forest Service that sends money to timber counties.At the beginning of...
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