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As Wall Street frets about the tech industry's eye-popping artificial intelligence spending spree, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy isn't blinking.
In a letter to shareholders Thursday, the Seattle-based …
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Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/10/26
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In hundreds of custody disputes across Washington each year, judges appoint neutral court investigators to look into how parents’ issues like substance use, domestic violence and mental health …
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By Kelsey Turner / InvestigateWest
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4/10/26
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Another lawsuit has been filed over the controversial new law that allows the Criminal Justice Training Commission to decertify a sitting sheriff and set new requirements for sheriff candidates.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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4/9/26
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Former Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna, Citizen Action Defense Fund (CADF) and former Supreme Court Justice and State Senator Phil Talmadge today filed a lawsuit in Klickitat County …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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4/9/26
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OLYMPIA — The state’s new income tax on millionaires won’t go into effect until 2029, but preparing for its implementation will require the state to hire hundreds of employees in the coming …
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By Shauna Sowersby / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/9/26
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Opponents of Washington’s new income tax on high earners filed a lawsuit Thursday, arguing the controversial law is unconstitutional and in conflict with nearly a century of state Supreme Court …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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4/9/26
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More Oregonians had their electricity or natural gas disconnected by the state’s top investor-owned utilities last year than in the previous year, according to reports filed by the utilities with …
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Gosia Wozniacka / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/9/26
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After months of heated political debate, Oregonians next month will vote on whether to raise taxes to help the state and local governments fix roads and upgrade transportation infrastructure.
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Carlos Fuentes / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/9/26
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Months after a woman was stabbed in a downtown Portland bar, police said a tactical team arrested a suspect in the case on Wednesday.
Tony O’Neal Taylor, Jr., 33, is accused of first- and …
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Tatum Todd / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/9/26
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New microunit shelters are coming to the Interbay neighborhood in Seattle, as part of Mayor Katie Wilson’s plan to rapidly expand shelter during her term and more immediately before World Cup games …
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Stephannie Stokes / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/9/26
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King County Assessor John Wilson pleaded not guilty Wednesday to two counts of violating a court order, nine months after he was arrested outside of his ex-fiancée’s home and accused of stalking …
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David Gutman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/9/26
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An 18-year-old driver was grazed in a drive-by shooting Wednesday evening in South Seattle.
The teen was shot while driving near Rainier Avenue South and South Othello Street, Seattle police …
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Caitlyn Freeman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/9/26
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A Tacoma-based refugee resettlement agency is challenging the Trump administration’s preference for admitting white Afrikaner refugees, calling it a discriminatory" practice.
In an amended …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/9/26
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A Seattle City Council committee grew the size of this summer’s library ballot measure by nearly $70 million to cover additional upkeep, hours, staffing and collections.
The total cost of the …
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David Kroman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/9/26
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Not everyone would want to be among the first on the operating table for a newly approved surgery, but after a decade of pain, Erika Clancy was eager and ready.
The problem has been her thumbs, …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/9/26
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Washington State Patrol has issued a Missing Indigenous Person Alert (MIPA) for a 16-year-old girl who was last seen around 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 8 in the Bellingham area.
Ariel Feliciano was …
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Jack Belcher / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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4/9/26
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Seattle City Council members say the city’s aging library system is desperately in need of more money, voting Wednesday to add nearly $70 million to the mayor Katie Wilson’s proposed $410 million …
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By Randy Diamond | The Center Square
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4/9/26
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The Yakima City Council passed a six-month moratorium on halfway houses and secure transition facilities Tuesday as the state considers where to place sexually violent predators.
Washington …
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Tim Clouser | The Center Square
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4/9/26
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Washington’s Department of Ecology announced a statewide drought emergency Wednesday, marking the fourth consecutive year that part or all of the state has been in a drought.
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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4/9/26
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The U.S. Coast Guard said it has seized 5.4 metric tons of allegedly unreported pollock roe and discovered several significant fishing violations aboard one of the biggest factory trawlers operating …
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By Yereth Rosen / Alaska Beacon
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4/9/26
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