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Gas prices are climbing again across the United States — with little clarity on where prices are headed next — spurring proposals for state gas tax holidays in the hopes of offering drivers some …
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By Amanda Watford / States Newsroom
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3/25/26
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Washington will soon end its reign as the state with the nation’s highest estate tax.
Gov. Bob Ferguson signed legislation Tuesday to erase an increase in estate tax rates that he and …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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3/25/26
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A Seattle political commentator secured a victory Monday in a public records case against the city of Seattle.
The Citizen Action Defense Fund (CADF) brought the case on behalf of unDivided …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/24/26
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The days of waiting until the last minute to turn in your election ballot may be numbered.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard a case Monday concerning a Mississippi law that allows mail-in ballots to …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/24/26
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development launched a fair-housing investigation into the Washington State Housing Finance Commission Tuesday over its race-based Covenant Homeownership …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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3/24/26
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A new Washington state law offers a way to make change in an era without pennies .
The federal government stopped making pennies last year but intends to keep the roughly 114 billion pennies in …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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3/24/26
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At 6 p.m. on a recent chilly Tuesday, Jim Sullivan’s thermostat in his Maple Valley, Minnesota, home automatically turned down to 60 degrees — not because he set it, but because his utility …
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Greg Kim / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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The Seattle Seahawks and Jaxon Smith-Njigba have reached an agreement on a new four-year contract that will make him the highest-paid receiver in NFL history, a source confirmed to The Seattle Times …
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Bob Condotta / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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The U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments on Monday in a case that could end the practice of counting ballots received after Election Day, which would upend Washington state's and several other states' …
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Anumita Kaur and Jim Brunner / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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A Tacoma man suspected of stabbing three of his housemates and setting their recovery home on fire in January now faces a homicide charge after one of the housemates died last week from his injuries.
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Catalina Gaitán / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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A teenager accused of gunning down two Rainier Beach High School students in January could face murder charges in adult court, but the road to get there will be a long one.
King County …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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How do you tell your boss something they don't want to hear?
Sitting in a T-Mobile Park conference room in late August of 2018, Seattle Mariners owner John Stanton asked a complicated question …
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Ryan Divish / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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That layer of clean, white snow across Western Washington’s lowlands and mountaintops sure was nice while it lasted.
But the abnormally warm winter temperatures that followed melted much of …
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Conrad Swanson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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All Seattle Public Schools employees must return to in-person work five days a week starting July 1.
The official announcement landed in employees’ inboxes Thursday from Bev Redmond, chief of …
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Claire Bryan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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The deadly collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck at LaGuardia Airport in New York City has raised alarm about the possibility of a plane speeding into another aircraft or vehicle on …
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Lauren Rosenblatt / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/24/26
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A group of Washington sheriffs urging Gov. Bob Ferguson to veto sections of Senate Bill 5974 is still waiting to find out if their concerns will be addressed when the bill is signed into law.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/23/26
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The Puyallup School District says a controversial student art project that depicted President Donald Trump as a pig, a KKK member and a clown with references to assassination, has been taken …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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3/23/26
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Since their peak less than three years ago, opioid overdose deaths dropped nearly by half as of October, according to a Stateline analysis. The drop comes as a shrinking fentanyl supply has made the …
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By Tim Henderson / States Newsroom
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3/23/26
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At the close of last year’s Washington state legislative session, a key bucket of wildfire prevention funding was slashed nearly in half by lawmakers attempting to offset a budget deficit. If it …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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3/23/26
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U.S. Supreme Court skeptical of allowing states to count mail ballots that arrive after Election Day
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the validity of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, in a case that could potentially affect hundreds of …
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By Jonathan Shorman / States Newsroom
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3/23/26
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