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Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson has announced a police crackdown on Aurora Avenue North in response to a surge in shootings and prostitution along the corridor, but only after residents created makeshift …
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By Randy Diamond / The Center Square
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6/2/26
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Montana Gov. Greg Gianforte announced on Monday the state will be the 25th participant in a national collaboration seeking to strengthen the foster care system.
According to the Montana …
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By Micah Drew / The Daily Montanan
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6/2/26
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Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek ordered state transportation officials Monday to cease issuing undercover license plates to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, citing “repeated violations of …
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By Shaanth Nanguneri / The Oregon Capital Chronicle
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6/2/26
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Last week, petitioners hoping to ban fishing and hunting in Oregon reached a milestone in their attempt to change state law.
Initiative Petition 28 , led by Portland-based animal rights …
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By Mia Maldonado / The Oregon Capital Chronicle
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6/2/26
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Last Thursday evening, Westport Mayor Ed Welter and the engineering and design team behind the city’s proposed tsunami tower held an open house at Ocosta Elementary School. Residents were afforded …
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By Jerry Knaak / The Daily World
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6/2/26
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Federal, state and tribal officials met May 29 at the Quinault Indian Nation’s Business Council Chambers in Taholah to discuss a push by the Quinault to expand their fishery boundary down to Cape …
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By Jeff Clemens / The Chinook Observer
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6/2/26
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A man is in the hospital after falling 25 feet from a grain silo near Rosalia on Sunday evening.
The man scaled a 25-foot metal silo on File Road, off state Route 271, south of Rosalia …
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Elena Perry / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/2/26
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The Wenatchee Police Department is investigating the death of an unidentified person found Saturday by the owner of the Line-X of Wenatchee truck shop in South Wenatchee as a homicide.
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Oscar Rodriguez / The Wenatchee World (TNS)
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6/2/26
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Women in Washington going through menopause could get workplace assistance, following an executive order signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson.
Ferguson on Monday directed the Washington State Women's …
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Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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6/2/26
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez sent a letter Monday seeking a commitment from a Longview mill to pay its workers through the investigation into a catastrophic industrial accident.
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Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/2/26
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When residents discovered plans for a 45-acre battery facility near their homes, hundreds marched in protest through the usually sleepy downtown. County officials said they received death threats …
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Greg Kim / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/2/26
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Skagit County’s board of commissioners voted to enact a six-month data center moratorium on Monday.
Officials cited data centers’ consumption of electricity, water and land, concerns that …
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Greg Kim / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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6/2/26
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President Donald Trump is still optimistic the U.S. can reach an interim peace deal with Iran soon, after the Islamic Republic threatened to suspend talks because of Israel’s escalating attacks in …
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Dana Khraiche and Abeer Abu Omar / Bloomberg News (TNS)
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6/2/26
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a case challenging Washington state's COVID-19 vaccine mandate for healthcare workers.
The case, Curtis v. Inslee, sought to challenge former …
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Andrew Rice | The Center Square
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6/2/26
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Vaccine hesitancy fed by misinformation is causing new surges of measles and whooping cough, while COVID-19 hotspots persist in some states and a new threat looms from an Ebola outbreak in central …
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By Tim Henderson / Stateline
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6/2/26
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There were fewer homeless people in the United States on a single night in January 2025 than in January 2024, but homelessness increased in 28 states, according to the latest federal count.
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By Robbie Sequeira / Stateline
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6/2/26
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6/2/26
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6/2/26
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For years, Washington state enjoyed a level of economic prosperity that former governor and Challenge Seattle CEO Christine Gregoire says stakeholders can no longer take for granted.
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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6/1/26
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Gov. Bob Ferguson is rejecting a lead Republican’s proposal to temporarily suspend Washington’s cap-and-trade program to decrease prices at the pump.
In the last three months, retail …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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6/1/26
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