Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced this week he is leading a coalition of states that filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court in Washington state challenging changes at the U.S. …
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By The Chronicle
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8/19/20
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Family, friends, fellow law enforcement officers and the Lewis County community as a whole got its opportunity Wednesday to formally pay respects to a local Washington State Patrol Trooper Justin …
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By Jackson Gardner / jgardner@chronline.com
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8/5/20
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There were no bugs buzzing around the lights in the parking lot.
Sitting in his car outside the Shadle Park Walmart on a muggy July night last year, Darren McCrea suddenly took note of the …
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By Riley Haun / The Spokesman-Review
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8/2/20
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As a law student at Gonzaga University, Allison Drescher spent three years preparing for the bar examination -- two consecutive days of multiple-choice questions and complicated essay prompts that …
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By Chad Sokol / The Spokesman-Review
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7/30/20
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Washington has joined a multistate lawsuit against the Trump administration, alleging the federal government is reducing state government authority in determining whether a building project will …
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By Kip Hill / The Spokesman-Review
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7/22/20
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OLYMPIA — Washington leaders should look for ways to make the state's economy stronger by making it more equitable as it recovers from the pandemic, the head of a national center on growth told a …
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By Jim Camden / The Spokesman-Review
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7/22/20
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While driving to work on a recent morning, Spokane County Health Officer Bob Lutz saw people holding signs that read "Lutz is nuts" and "Lutz is a tyrant."
Lutz, who has had to make a string of …
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By Maggie Quinlan / The Spokesman-Review
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7/11/20
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The state is at a standstill.
With counties not allowed to advance in his reopening phases, Gov. Jay Inslee has one message for residents: Wear a mask.
In a news conference Thursday, Inslee …
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By Arielle Dreher and Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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7/10/20
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Three candidates will take on Republican incumbent Secretary of State Kim Wyman in the Aug. 4 primary, and as COVID-19 forces the country to rethink voting systems, election reform is on candidates' …
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By Laurel Demkovich / The Spokesman-Review
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7/10/20
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U.S. Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt announced Tuesday at a roundtable with community members in Omak, Washington, that the Department of the Interior will not move forward with a new …
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By Dave Nichols / The Spokesman-Review
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7/9/20
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WASHINGTON — In a ruling issued Wednesday, the Supreme Court upheld a Trump administration policy that lets employers opt out of a requirement under the Affordable Care Act to provide health …
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By Orion Donovan-Smith / The Spokesman-Review
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7/9/20
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For the second election cycle in a row, the race for Washington's lieutenant governor post has drawn a large and diverse field of candidates for a job that straddles the executive and legislative …
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By Jim Camden / The Spokesman-Review
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7/9/20
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Three presidential electors in Washington who refused to vote for Hillary Clinton after she carried the state in the 2016 election can be fined $1,000, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.
In a …
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By Jim Camden / The Spokesman-Review
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7/7/20
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