North Central Public Health District’s COVID-19 team has had a “front row” seat, as one team member put it, to seeing how the virus behaves in people — and how people behave in response.

Several members of the public walked out of Thursday’s North Wasco County School Board meeting in reaction to the board’s approval to dismiss The Dalles High School faculty member Wayne Gibson.

Vaccine rate increasing

Dr. Judy Richardson of The Dalles wholeheartedly recommends the pediatric Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for her young patients ages 5-11 and her own nieces and nephews.

As the season of giving approaches, local non-profit organizations are preparing to see a greater need for donations during their seasonal gift-giving drives.

Helen Mendoza still has health issues from her bout with COVID-19 almost a year ago.

North Central Public Health District (NCPHD) has reported a 41st death from COVID-19 in Wasco County. The person tested positive on Oct. 15 and died on Oct. 19 at Mid-Columbia Medical Center.

The coronavirus pandemic is instigating the greatest staffing shortage the Columbia River Gorge region has seen in years, according to local economists.

When COVID-19 hit in March 2020 and school went online, teachers had to scramble to find a way to understand their situation. Most teachers were faced with teaching in a completely new format with minimal training and direction, and they all had to struggle to figure something out.

THE DALLES — A 40th death from complications of COVID-19 in Wasco County has been reported by the North Central Public Health District (NCPHD). A woman died Sept. 11 at Mid-Columbia Medical Center (MCMC). She tested positive two days prior to her death. It is the 40th death for the county.

A deadly spike in COVID-19 infections that began just before Independence Day should near its end around Christmas, a new state forecast said Thursday, Oct. 14.

FEMA — Federal Emergency Management Act — is providing financial reimbursement for funeral and cremation expenses for those who have lost a loved one due to COVID-19, and Jack Trumbull, owner of Anderson’s Tribute Center, is providing assistance to anyone interested in accessing these funds,…

For teachers, one of the biggest themes throughout the pandemic has been formulating and maintaining relationships with students even in an online classroom. For Jennifer Vaught, a second-grade teacher at Colonel Wright Elementary School, this held especially true.

If there’s one thing the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, it’s how hard teachers work for their students. Online learning meant many teachers had to juggle multiple things at once, and for Susy Reyes-Montes that meant not only teaching kindergartners how to navigate online schooling, but also ma…

Oregon and Washington law enforcement personnel met head to head in The Dalles Saturday, Oct. 2, to battle it out on the football field in the annual Pig Bowl flag football event.

The month of September was focused on a retention event for resource (foster) families. For District 9 — Wasco, Hood River, Sherman, Gilliam and Wheeler counties — certification staff and Resource Parent Recruitment and Retention Champion Marvin Hamilton worked to promote an event that all r…

If there’s anything that’s been proven during the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that teaching can take many different forms. Though the traditional image is a teacher standing in front of a classroom, lecturing, that’s not always the case. Especially throughout quarantine, teaching started to look…

THE DALLES — It’s hard to miss it. A bright yellow and green building on Kelly Street, adorned with colorful advertisements on the outside and equally colorful pinatas on the inside, La Michoacana has become a staple of The Dalles. Around lunchtime every weekday, you’ll see a dutiful stream …

A Klickitat County Board of Health meeting ended in a plea by County Commissioner Dan Christopher to terminate health officer Dr. Amy Person from her position on the board.

Columbia Gorge Women’s Action Network delivered We Care packages to Klickitat County Health Department, Skyline Hospital, Northshore Clinic in White Salmon and Stevenson on Sept. 16, and were planning additional deliveries to Klickitat Valley Health hospital in Goldendale and the Goldendale …

The ongoing surge of COVID-19, driven by the highly contagious delta variant, appears to have peaked in Oregon and the Columbia River Gorge, but hospitals, healthcare workers and emergency responders continue to see an increase in patients needing emergency and critical care.