FORKS -- Filming is nearly complete on the movie Twilight, based on the Stephanie Meyer novel. In the story, a teenage girl moves to this rainy Olympic Peninsula outpost, where she falls in love with a high school classmate -- who just happens to be a vampire. Producers expect to film a few scenes in nearby LaPush, but most of the film has been shot in and around Portland, to the disappointment of local businesspeople.

RICHLAND -- Want to know how the latest scientific research might advance or impact your particular line of business? The Pacific Northwest's leading scientific research institutions have launched a website, sciencenorthwest. org, devoted to sharing research news from the region's science universities, institutes and national laboratory. The website is edited and maintained by the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, whose partners include the University of Washington, Washington State University, the University of Oregon, Oregon State University, Oregon Health & Sciences University, the University of Idaho, the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute, and the Institute for Systems Biology.

SPOKANE -- The owners of Deaconess and Valley Hospital medical centers in Spokane have laid off 130 people while awaiting regulatory approval for a proposed sale. The board of nonprofit Empire Health Services has agreed to be taken over by Tennessee- based Community Health Systems, which plans to convert Deaconess and Valley to for-profit hospitals.