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PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Here is the latest information from April 22, 2020, in Oregon and Southwest Washington in the ongoing coronavirus pandemic: No new deaths in Oregon.

Momentum is building for a proposed $50 billion stimulus package for the nation's child care industry.

Proposed by advocacy groups including the National Association for the Education of Young Children in late March, members of Congress are signing on to back the measure, including Oregon Rep. Suzanne Bonamici and Sens. Jeff Merkley and Ron Wyden.

The 50th anniversary of the first Earth Day looks a little different from those that came before it. Rallies have been canceled, climate strikes have been relegated to living rooms, and protests, once planned to fill the streets, have moved online.

Washington, D.C. – As the 2020 wildfire season rapidly approaches, Oregon's U.S.

Arranging for a shipment of more than 12,000 N95 respirator face masks, in the middle of a pandemic, sounds next to impossible. But a tenacious Oregon nonprofit with connections in China pulled it off, and now medical personnel at five hospitals will be better protected in the ongoing battle against COVID-19.

Astoria-based WCT Marine & Construction, one of the few remaining shipwrights in the region, has secured a $573,000 federal grant to build a self-contained outside work area at North Tongue Point.