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The U.S. Justice Department said Tuesday it has sued Oregon and Maine for rejecting demands that the states turn over troves of personal voter information.
The Oregon Secretary of …
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By Julia Shumway / States Newsroom
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9/16/25
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Washington’s Department of Health stands ready to inspect the state’s only immigrant detention center after a court ruling last month.
State inspectors for years have been pushing …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/16/25
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Anti-tax advocate Tim Eyman traveled hundreds of miles to testify in protest on Monday as the Pasco City Council considers imposing new fees and sales taxes without voter approval.
Eyman led …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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9/16/25
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A day after President Donald Trump endorsed the prospect of designating antifa as a domestic terrorist organization, Washington State Republican Party Chair Jim Walsh says he is convinced, like the …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/16/25
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A Skagit County restaurant owner recently pleaded guilty to illegally buying black bear parts from an undercover Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife officer during an investigation in late …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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9/16/25
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Washington’s top K-12 official is asking lawmakers to bankroll a statewide push in 2026 to bring artificial intelligence tools and training into classrooms.
Superintendent of Public …
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By Paul W. Taylor / TVW
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9/16/25
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State Democrat officials continue to push a narrative that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act will harm the state’s health care system, while Republicans argue it’s a scaremongering effort to …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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9/15/25
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When G. Helen Whitener arrived in this country at age 16 from Trinidad and Tobago, she did so in a wheelchair.
The right side of Whitener’s body had become paralyzed. She learned it …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/15/25
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Thousands of state government and community college employees in Washington have overwhelmingly ratified a new one-year contract that would secure raises they lost out on in July.
Nearly 5,300 …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/15/25
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The federal permit that allows Northwest states and some Native nations to trap and kill salmon-eating sea lions in the Columbia River was reapproved late last week.
The National Oceanic and …
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By Henry Brannan / Murrow News
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9/15/25
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Utah and federal government officials on Friday morning said they had apprehended the gunman suspected in the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk roughly a day after the shooting on …
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Jacob Moore / For The Reflector
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9/15/25
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When Linda Wadleigh was a forestry major at Utah State University she came upon her first summer job as a firefighter, a role that led to a 30-year career in wildland fire management with the U.S. …
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By Jeniffer Solis / States Newsroom
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9/15/25
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Comcast is suing to block a new Washington law imposing sales tax on advertising services, imperiling a financial linchpin lawmakers relied on to balance the state’s budget.
The cable …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/15/25
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For two decades, embattled consumers knew having investigative journalist Jesse Jones on their side could very likely make things right for them.
Now, Gov. Bob Ferguson is counting on Jones to …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/15/25
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Twenty days from Friday, Spokane’s most notorious criminal is likely to be released from the Special Commitment Center on McNeil Island, and The Center Square has learned that Kevin Coe is …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/12/25
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Washington state’s most recent carbon auction brought in an estimated $446 million, according to results released by the state Department of Ecology. As of Friday, Washington state has the …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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9/12/25
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School is finally back in session following a three-week delay at Evergreen Public Schools in southwest Washington, after unionized staff approved a deal with district administrators.
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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9/12/25
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BELLEVUE — Top U.S. House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries traveled here Friday to decry rising health insurance costs he says are driven by recent actions from congressional Republicans and the Trump …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/12/25
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A provision backed by U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, to guarantee American servicemembers the right to repair their own equipment passed the House of Representatives as part of the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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9/12/25
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The Washington Office of the Secretary of State announced it will fund Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center, or MS-ISAC, memberships for county auditors, which it argues will help …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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9/12/25
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