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Opponents of Washington’s new income tax law plan Thursday to formally launch their legal challenge to the constitutionality of the controversial statute.
Attorneys and plaintiffs have …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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4/9/26
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A week after Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a nearly $80 billion budget, questions remain as to why he vetoed two grants that amounted to a molecule of the spending plan.
Ferguson and …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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4/9/26
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Gov. Bob Ferguson announced last week Washington state is joining the World Health Organization’s (WHO) Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network (GOARN), a coordinated worldwide partnership …
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By The Chronicle staff
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4/8/26
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The Washington state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) has officially designated a new natural area preserve in Cowlitz County.
Toutle Ridge Fen Natural Area Preserve totals 166 acres and …
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By The Chronicle staff
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4/8/26
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A magnitude 4.0 earthquake struck off the Oregon coast on Tuesday. The quake hit in the early afternoon about 250 miles west of Newport at a depth of about 6 miles. Few people appear to have felt it …
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The Oregonian / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/8/26
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Three people were killed in a separate shooting and stabbing in Kent on Tuesday night, police say.
Police are searching for the suspects in both killings.
In a social media post Wednesday …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/8/26
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The Seattle City Council approved a landmark $4 billion agreement Tuesday laying out a road map for the city’s next half-century of hydropower on the Skagit River.
After a century of …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/8/26
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In back-to-back hearings on federal agents’ use of excessive force and chemicals on crowds outside the Portland Immigration and Customs Enforcement Facility, three federal appeals judges seemed …
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By Alex Baumhardt / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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4/8/26
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Washington state health inspectors have been trying for months to enter the Tacoma immigrant detention center amid longstanding concerns about the conditions there.
A federal appeals court …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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4/8/26
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WASHINGTON — Washington state’s federal lawmakers swiftly denounced President Donald Trump as “reckless” and “unhinged” after he warned Tuesday morning that “a whole civilization will …
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By Anumita Kaur and Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/8/26
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The gray whale found dead in the Willapa River over the weekend was malnourished and had suffered internal injuries, biologists said Tuesday.
The whale was already in a “very debilitated …
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By Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/8/26
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The Spokane Valley City Council will consider banning cryptocurrency kiosks on Tuesday night as fraudsters scam victims out of their hard-earned savings with made-up emergencies.
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Tim Clouser | The Center Square
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4/8/26
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Bail was set at $250,000 on Tuesday for a Tri-Cities paraeducator accused of using AI to turn images of a girl he “friended” on Facebook into sexually explicit videos and photos.
Kevin R. …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (Kennewick, Wash.) (TNS)
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4/8/26
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Gun violence in the city seems to wash on by.
When there’s a murder, there’s often a makeshift street memorial for the victim, which disintegrates in the elements until it is eventually …
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Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/8/26
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Following the U.S. Department of Education’s rescission of multiple resolution agreements - based on claims that prior administrations broadened Title IX beyond its original scope - affected school …
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By Esther Wickham | The Center Square
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4/8/26
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Samm Thompson doesn’t hear nearly as much gunfire as she did a year or two ago from her apartment at Mercy Magnuson Place, old Navy barracks that were converted into low-income housing in Magnuson …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/8/26
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The U.S. Department of Education is no longer requiring the Fife School District to maintain certain protections for transgender students.
The department on Monday announced that it was …
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Isha Trivedi / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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4/7/26
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Imagine you're shopping for a home. You've been scouring Zillow and Redfin for months with no luck. But, unbeknown to you, your dream home is actually for sale — you’ll just never see it, let …
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Alexis Weisend / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/7/26
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It took the federal government months to properly serve attorneys for Washington in the Trump administration’s litigation to force the state to turn over its voter rolls.
But now the lawsuit …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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4/7/26
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Olympia attorney Corner Edwards is attempting a long-shot bid to recall Washington Governor Bob Ferguson as a “pressure tactic” to have the state’s top executive make appointments to the two …
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By Randy Diamond / The Center Square
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4/7/26
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