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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...

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Sequester 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...

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Song 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...

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Some 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...

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Alaska 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...

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Control 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...

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Air 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...

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Federal 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...

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Busy 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...

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Forest 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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