California Labor Commissioner Fines Contractor $1.1M for 74 Workers December 14, 2023 The California Labor Commissioner’s Office collected $1.1 million in wages and penalties resulting from a prevailing wage assessment against general...
Crews Work to Contain Gas Pipeline Spill in Washington December 13, 2023 Responders set up a containment boom after a gasoline spill from the weekend failure of part of a pipeline in...
Heart of Hawaii’s Historic Lahaina Reopens to Residents and Business Owners December 13, 2023 By Audrey McAvoy The heart of Lahaina, the historic town on the Hawaiian island of Maui that burned in a deadly wildfire that...
Oregon’s Compensable Worker Fatalities up in 3Q, Report Shows December 13, 2023 A report from the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services for the third quarter shows a rise in work-related...
Ex-First Republic Engineer in California Gets Prison for Cloud Hack December 12, 2023 By Robert Burnson A former First Republic Bank cloud engineer in San Francisco was sentenced to two years in prison for vandalizing the...
California Faces Record $68B Budget Deficit, Legislative Analyst Says December 12, 2023 By Adam Beam California is facing a record $68 billion budget deficit, state officials announced, forcing hard choices for Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom...
How Cybercriminals Are Using Wyoming Shell Companies for Global Hacks December 12, 2023 By Raphael Satter Somali reporter Abdalle Ahmed Mumin was doubly distressed when he heard that a colleague had been abducted by masked gunmen...
Washington Cancer Center Patients Get Threatening Emails Following Data Breach December 12, 2023 Some patients of a Seattle, Washington-based cancer center received threatening emails following a data breach last month. Fred Hutchinson Cancer...
$20M Suit Blames Overtime, Years of Jail Work for Los Angeles County Deputy’s Suicide December 11, 2023 The family of a Los Angeles County sheriff`s deputy who killed himself has filed a $20 million wrongful-death claim against...
Washington Fruit Grower Fined After Workers Die in Tractor Rollovers December 11, 2023 A Yakima, Washington, fruit grower and processor was fined nearly $300,000 by the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries...