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A large solar farm proposed in eastern Washington appears on course to clear a critical regulatory hurdle this month, despite opposition from the Yakama Nation.
After that, it would go for …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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10/8/25
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Washington voters will soon receive ballots in the mail for the Nov. 4 general election.
The only statewide ballot measure is Senate Joint Resolution 8201 , which proposes a constitutional …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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10/8/25
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Less than a week after being “unconditionally released” from confinement on McNeil Island, the man who became known as the “South Hill Rapist” is moving into a group home in …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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10/8/25
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Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell has signed two executive orders in anticipation of President Donald Trump deploying the National Guard in the Emerald City.
The first executive order accuses Trump of …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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10/8/25
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The founder of the political action committee behind two statewide initiatives concerning parental rights and the protection of girls in sports says he suspects organized groups are behind dozens of …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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10/8/25
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States that routinely overpay or underpay food stamp recipients could now lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.
This has Washington officials trying to improve the …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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10/8/25
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Work to close educational achievement gaps for several minority groups in Washington state is being hindered by a lack of data, according to people involved in the yearslong effort.
A new series …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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10/8/25
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As Oregon awaits more clarity from a federal appeals court on the Trump administration’s attempts to deploy National Guard troops from multiple states to Portland, U.S. Homeland Security …
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By Alex Baumhardt and Julia Shumway / The Oregon Capital Chronicle
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10/7/25
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Rep. John Ley, R-Vancouver, raised concerns about rising costs and unanswered questions after a joint Washington-Oregon committee overseeing the Interstate 5 Bridge Replacement (IBR) program met …
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The Reflector
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10/7/25
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Washington state’s Climate Commitment Act has successfully weathered another round of legal scrutiny.
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a major challenge to the …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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10/7/25
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The first huckleberry season since the U.S. Forest Service banned commercial harvesting in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest was a resounding success for conservation of the berries, as well as …
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By Henry Brannon / Murrow News
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10/6/25
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The city of Portland, state leaders and hundreds of Oregon and California National Guard troops are in legal limbo as federal courts determine the legality of President Donald Trump’s …
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By Alex Baumhardt / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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10/6/25
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WASHINGTON — The White House slammed a President Donald Trump-appointed federal judge Monday for blocking the deployment of National Guard troops to Oregon, as hostilities escalate between the …
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By Ashley Murray and Jacob Fischler / States Newsroom
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10/6/25
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The number of students attending Washington State University appears to be stabilizing after dramatic declines following the COVID pandemic, despite those students paying the highest combination of …
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By Nicholas K. Geranios / The Washington State Standard
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10/6/25
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Saying the Trump administration directly contravened her Saturday order blocking the federal government from mobilizing National Guard troops in Portland, a federal judge issued a broader order …
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By Julia Shumway / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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10/6/25
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Washington’s push to cut greenhouse gas emissions, expand electric vehicles and grow a clean-energy economy faces new hurdles as the Trump administration rolls back federal climate policies …
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By Paul W. Taylor / TVW
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10/4/25
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Patrick Connor, Washington state director for the National Federation of Independent Business, fears that tax increases passed by the state Legislature this session will translate into job losses.
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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10/3/25
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A lawsuit was filed in Thurston County Superior Court on Thursday by a pair of state lawmakers and a public policy organization against two state agencies for what the plaintiffs say is the …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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10/3/25
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The reversal of a decades-old U.S. Forest Service policy means that federal wildland firefighters can now mask up if they want to — something Washington’s state wildland firefighters have …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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10/3/25
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School will continue as normal for Washington’s K-12 students amidst the federal government shutdown, at least for now.
Most federal funding for K-12 education is provided in …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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10/2/25
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