Hours after the collapse of a 20-foot portion of a Hanford tunnel full of highly contaminated equipment, Adrian Martens was sitting at the bar having a pint after his Tuesday shift. He said people here aren’t afraid of Hanford — or adopting the atomic iconography as kitsch. “It’s a fun retro thing,” he said. He thinks the news panicking about the tunnel collapse “might be overblown.”
“I think it’s kind of getting me tired being in the same system… and not finding anyone who wants to adopt me.”
Weak controls in equipment repair shops in the Nevada Department of Transportation led to misuse of state resources, an audit found.
The Metropolitan Police Department has been sued in an effort to compel it to release public records related to the expanded federal immigration enforcement at the county jail.
Mondelēz Global LLC announced a voluntary recall of four carton sizes of Ritz Peanut Butter Cracker Sandwiches. The affected products were made in the U.S. and sold nationwide.
This year’s outbreaks, some of them interconnected, started five months ago in undervaccinated communities in West Texas.
