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Puget Sound-based commerce organizations are strongly urging state lawmakers not to raise taxes on businesses to address a projected budget shortfall and instead find ways to live within their means.
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By Spencer Pauley / The Center Square
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4/4/25
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How much Washington should raise in new tax revenue and who will pay is something state lawmakers and Gov. Bob Ferguson will hash out in the final weeks of the legislative session.
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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4/4/25
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Travelers are advised to plan ahead for overnight lane closures on Interstate 5 at DuPont on Friday and Saturday.
Construction crews will begin closing I-5 lanes at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday …
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Martín Bilbao / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/3/25
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Washington is suing a property management software company and a handful of landlords over allegations they colluded to inflate rents through a price-fixing scheme, Attorney General Nick Brown …
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Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
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4/3/25
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Amid a widening trade war launched by President Donald Trump, Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell is leading a bipartisan push to give Congress more authority in setting tariffs.
Cantwell on Thursday …
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David Gutman and Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/3/25
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This article was first published by High Country News .
The U.S. Forest Service announced this week that it will temporarily prohibit commercial picking of huckleberries this summer in Gifford …
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Josephine Woolington / High Country News / Washington State Standard
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4/3/25
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Some visitors could soon pay even more to visit Oregon state parks.
In a new proposal from the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department, visitors from out of state would pay a 25% surcharge on …
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Jamie Hale / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/3/25
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A husband-and-wife-owned forestry company is accused of duping an elderly New Jersey man into signing a bogus contract and then decimating his family’s 321 acres of forestland along the Pacific …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/3/25
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The next time one of Oregon’s U.S. senators dies or retires before the end of their term, the governor could get to appoint their temporary replacement.
That proposal, in Senate Bill 952, …
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Sami Edge / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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4/3/25
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Representatives from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detained several dozen people during a raid at Mount Baker Roofing in Bellingham on Wednesday.
Employees told a Herald …
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Jack Belcher / The News Tribune (TNS)
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4/3/25
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State Department of Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind recently approved rules designed to limit the spread of chronic wasting disease.
The disease, which was first detected in the state …
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Vince Richardson / Skagit Valley Herald (TNS)
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4/3/25
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An Eatonville, Washington, animal clinic is treating a 5-month-old orphaned cougar cub found near Spokane earlier this month.
The cub is now in the care of Northwest Trek Wildlife Park, which is …
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Alexandra Duggan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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4/3/25
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A 27-year-old man who brutally beat a woman in an unprovoked downtown Spokane attack and then killed an Eastern State Hospital patient six months later was sentenced to 18 years in prison.
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Garrett Cabeza / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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4/3/25
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In what has become a grueling economic ritual, companies, farmers and other commercial players in Washington are again scrambling to assess the costs of another round of tariffs by President Donald …
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Paul Roberts / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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4/3/25
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Defying Olympia, the Spokane Valley City Council passed a resolution Tuesday explicitly opposing what many call Washington’s “sanctuary state” law, despite residents' pleas to …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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4/3/25
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A bill that gained bipartisan support in the Washington state Senate to strengthen online safety for children has failed to move forward in the House.
Senate Bill 5708 came at the request …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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4/2/25
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A Woodland woman who has two children with a teenager was sentenced to over a year for felony child rape.
Magali Victoria Ramirez, 22, of Woodland, pleaded guilty to a third-degree rape of a …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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4/2/25
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Lawmakers in the Washington House and Senate will have plenty of negotiating to do as they try to reconcile competing transportation budget proposals, which both depend on gas tax hikes.
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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4/2/25
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, along with Reps. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, and Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, this week introduced the bipartisan Community Wood Facilities Assistance Act …
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By The Chronicle staff
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4/2/25
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The Washington state House of Representatives on Monday, March 31, announced $7.63 billion in spending as part of its bipartisan 2025-27 capital budget proposal.
The spending would go toward …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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4/2/25
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