Coronavirus

Face coverings are becoming mandatory statewide starting this Friday, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Tuesday.  Some retailers and businesses already require people to wear a mask or cover their nose and mouth amid the COVID-19 pandemic.

Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan will propose $20 million in cuts to the police budget in the remainder of 2020, the most of any department as the city attempts to fill a hole of about $400 million caused by the coronavirus.

The pandemic halted school athletics earlier this year and parents and students everywhere want to know if this year’s high school football season might also be a bust.

Washington state will require people to wear facial coverings in public settings, under a statewide public health order announced Tuesday by Gov. Jay Inslee in response to ongoing COVID-related health concerns.

A 100-year-old Indiana woman who has lived through World War II, survived cancer and successfully battled her way back from a bout of pneumonia last year, learned earlier this month that she’s also a survivor of COVID-19.

The government’s top infectious disease expert told a House committee on Tuesday he believes “it will be when and not if” there will be a COVID-19 vaccine and that he remains “cautiously optimistic” that some will be ready at the end of the year.