RALEIGH, N.C. (WNCN) – High caseloads and limited staff at the N.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner are leading to families waiting for closure in their loved ones’ deaths. One of those is the family of Joyce Alexander. She wants to know why her brother died after suddenly collapsing 14 months ago. “We don’t […]
CHICAGO — It’s been four years since the COVID-19 outbreak led to a rise in remote work. Now, even though the public health crisis has diminished, the work from home trend shows no signs of slowing, pushing downtown office vacancies higher. “We just don’t have the same number of people working in the Loop as […]
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has appointed two women to fill judge vacancies in the Second Judicial District, which covers Ramsey County. On Friday, the governor announced that Veena Iyer and Jennifer Verdeja would fill those roles. The two will fill the vacancies created when JaPaul Harris moved up to the Minnesota Court of Appeals and […]
DENVER (KDVR) — Promising news from a new jobs report released by the Colorado Chamber of Commerce: according to the report, more jobs are being filled now compared to the last two years. Colorado ranks 14th for job vacancies in the country, down from 8th where the Centennial State previously ranked. Denver homeownership costs have […]
In Merced County, which stretches from the Sierra Nevada foothills west across vast acres of orchards and farmland, Sheriff Vern Warnke increasingly finds himself the only law enforcement officer available to answer a call for help. Most recently, the department received a call from a woman regarding a domestic dispute, saying her husband had a […]
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers in Kentucky on Friday removed the Democratic governor from any role filling future U.S. Senate vacancies — a move supporters said was unrelated to recent scrutiny about the health of the state’s senior senator, Republican leader Mitch McConnell. The GOP supermajority Legislature easily overrode Gov. Andy Beshear‘s veto of […]
There are about 76,000 state employees in North Carolina. Many are in state agencies led by elected officials, or by someone hired by those same politicians. Those agencies have grappled with a vacancy rate between 20% and 25% since the COVID-19 pandemic. The vacancy rate was 22.4% in November, according to the most recent data […]
Mississippi has 182 more teacher vacancies than last year, bringing the total number of openings to 2,775, according to survey results published Thursday by the state’s education department. That trend extends to other school workers. The 2023-24 Educator Shortage survey, which looks at the K-12 education workforce in local school districts, shows there are 5,012 […]
Democrats in Legislative District 5 nominated three people Monday evening to fill one of the district’s two vacancies in the Arizona House. But they couldn’t decide who to nominate for the district’s second seat. In a series of back-to-back meetings stretching over nearly four hours, precinct committee members from the central Phoenix district nominated Mark […]
The Kentucky House is currently a couple members short. But that won’t last for long, as two special elections have been set for March 19 to fill vacancies in the Greater Louisville area and Western Kentucky. Former state representative Russell Webber of Bullitt County and former state representative Brandon Reed of LaRue County both left […]
(BCN) — Silicon Valley’s offices are rapidly emptying out, as the paradigm-shifting remote work culture brought on by the pandemic continues to affect the commercial real estate market. A December report from the research arms of Joint Venture Silicon Valley and commercial real estate firm JLL Silicon Valley shows demand for office space in the […]