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Columbia River salmon recovery programs fared better in the 2026 federal budget than tribes, advocates, bureaucrats and biologists feared.
President Donald Trump had made major cuts to the …
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By Henry Brannan / Murrow News
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2/9/26
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — In a buzzing auditorium in Alabama, nobody really knew who Cooper Kupp was. It was the 2017 Senior Bowl, back when Kupp was a largely anonymous wide receiver out of Eastern …
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Greg Woods / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/9/26
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A 10-year-old Spokane girl and her father detained by Border Patrol last month have been freed from a federal immigration detention center in Texas.
The pair returned to Spokane on Saturday …
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Cannon Barnett / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/9/26
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SANTA CLARA, Calif. — The celebration started long before the Super Bowl did.
At noon Sunday, Seahawks fans stood on a makeshift pirate ship, sponsored by a random rum company, in a lot just …
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Mike Vorel / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/26
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Now, where does a 12 go to party? Or a few hundred thousand 12s?
A victory parade will be held Wednesday celebrating the Super Bowl LX champion Seattle Seahawks, a city spokesperson confirmed …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/26
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In July 2011, sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein flew to Seattle, stayed at the downtown luxury Hotel 1000 and, according to an email he later wrote, spent a day with Bill Gates, “having monstrous …
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By Paige Cornwell / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/26
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Three people were found dead with apparent gunshot wounds in an Olympia home Saturday morning, according to police.
Police responded around 10:37 a.m. to a report of arguing and gunfire at a …
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By Denisa R. Superville / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/26
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OLYMPIA — More than 350 protesters, many of them high school students and young adults, gathered at Heritage Park overlooking the Washington Capitol on a rain-soaked Saturday afternoon to mark a …
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By Sophia Sostrin / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/26
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Authorities say a Troutdale man is injured after causing a rollover crash on Interstate 5 on Friday night in Woodland.
Alberto Magana Zacarias, 37, is suspected of driving under the influence …
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The Daily News
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2/9/26
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers granted an environmental approval last month to a project to dredge a 1,000-foot-wide deep water ship turn around in the Columbia River near the Port of Kalama and …
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Henry Brannan / Murrow News
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2/9/26
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A Washington bill concerning public records requests advanced out of committee, but not before lawmakers amended it to remove a proposed task force and narrow the scope to just school districts.
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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2/9/26
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The deadline for Trump administration officials to decide if Yellowstone-area grizzly bears should retain Endangered Species Act protections has been pushed back nearly a year.
In January 2025, …
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By Mike Koshmrl / The Daily Montanan
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2/9/26
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A group of Idaho lawmakers have unveiled a slate of immigration proposals, crafted in tandem with Theo Wold, a former Donald Trump administration official and former Idaho solicitor general.
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By Laura Guido / Idaho Capital Sun
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2/9/26
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Idaho Republican lawmakers are bringing new bills that expand the state’s law banning transgender people from using their preferred school bathrooms.
Two bills introduced Friday seek to …
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By Kyle Pfannenstiel / Idaho Capital Sun
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2/9/26
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The Trump administration’s move to give deportation officials access to Medicaid data is putting hospitals and states in a bind as they weigh whether to alert immigrant patients that their personal …
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By Phil Galewitz, KFF Health News and Amanda Seitz, KFF Health News
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2/9/26
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Over the next decade, obesity rates across the nation could surge to close to half of U.S. adults, a new study published in the medical journal JAMA estimates.
Researchers at the University of …
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By Nada Hassanein / States Newsroom
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2/9/26
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When the federal government stopped making pennies , it left it up to states to decide how retailers deal with the change.
In Washington, lawmakers are trying to come up with a uniform approach …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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2/9/26
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The family detained by federal agents in a Portland hospital’s parking lot is headed back to Oregon after being released from immigration detention in Texas.
U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter, …
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By Mia Maldonado / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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2/7/26
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About 19,000 fewer Washingtonians enrolled in health insurance through the state’s online marketplace amid the loss of federal subsidies.
The decline didn’t appear to be as precipitous as …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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2/7/26
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President Donald Trump’s calls this week to “nationalize” elections capped a year of efforts by his administration to exercise authority over state-run elections. The demands now have some …
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By Jonathan Shorman / Stateline
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2/7/26
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