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The U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Lab on the Iowa State campus has a new director
The U.S. Department of Energy Ames National Laboratory will welcome a new director this summer who hails from Washington ...
Trump guts the Education Department with massive layoffs; shock waves reach California
As Trump begins dismantling the Education Department, student loan services, civil rights enforcement and funding for ...
What’s being lost with the DOGE cuts? These fired feds can tell you.
The Washington Post spoke to fired workers who explained their roles — and what the country is losing with the elimination of ...
USDA ends $1 billion for schools, food banks to buy food from local suppliers
Schools and local food banks will lose about $1.1 billion from the U.S. Department of Agriculture for the purchase of food ...
Education Department cuts: Loss of money could affect 100,000 Palm Beach County students
The Education Department has announced that half of its workforce will be fired. Here's what kinds of federal money Palm ...
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As Trump cuts workforce, federal unemployment claims in WA double
As the Trump administration pushes to dramatically downsize the federal government, new state data released this week show a ...
KOIN Portland on MSN2d
DOGE cuts to USDA, Forest Service spark wildfire concerns in the Pacific Northwest
Amid efforts by the Trump administration to purge the federal workforce, a group of Democratic lawmakers in Washington state ...
Snoqualmie Valley Record on MSN3d
How to navigate the bird flu in Washington state
However, humans, while not highly susceptible, can get bird flu from interacting with infected animals. If a sick or dead ...
USDA ends program that helped schools serve food from local farmers
The U.S. Agriculture Department is ending two pandemic-era programs that provided more than $1 billion for schools and food ...
Federal funding chaos is hampering WA state planning for wildfire season, officials say
The last thing we need right now planning for wildfire season is uncertainty,” one state official told The News Tribune.
New WA unemployment data begins to show scale of federal firings
The pace of claims has increased in the last few weeks, as Trump has given Elon Musk and DOGE broad authority to fire federal workers.
USDA halts funding to University of Maine System after Trump spat with governor
Gov. Janet Mills and Donald Trump publicly fought in February over the state of Maine failing to comply with a presidential executive order on women's sports.