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Highway 2, the main route from Seattle to Leavenworth, reopened to regular traffic just east of Stevens Pass on Saturday, after the Washington State Department of Transportation finished emergency …
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Lulu Ramadan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Gov. Bob Ferguson’s first year in office has been shaped by a state budget crisis that was years in the making, and yet somehow arrived abruptly.
He and majority Democrats last year grappled …
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Jim Brunner and Shauna Sowers / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/11/26
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Fueled by torrential December rains, a nameless creek draining from Suiattle Mountain saw a landslide hurtle hip-high boulders, uproot trees and blow through a road.
It carved a roughly …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/11/26
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A federal judge in Washington state on Friday permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a 2025 executive order that sought to require voters prove citizenship and that all ballots …
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By Julia Shumway / States Newsroom
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1/10/26
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Filled with quiet outrage, a stream of about 125 protesters — some carrying flowers or battery-lit candles — silently marched several blocks Friday evening to the Southeast Portland parking lot …
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Aimee Green, Jonathan Bach / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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1/10/26
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The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) says it will take about two years to complete the next step in addressing the closure of the state Route 165 Carbon River Fairfax Bridge.
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Isabela Lund / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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1/10/26
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La Niña is going to stick around for a few more months, a forecast that could ease drought conditions next summer in Western Washington.
A Jan. 5 report from the National Weather Service’s …
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Robert Mittendorf / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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1/10/26
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Eleven elementary school children were injured when a sedan crashed into their school bus in Pierce County Friday morning.
A Franklin Pierce School District bus was taking 32 children between …
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Kai Uyehara / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/10/26
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A former Expedia employee was sentenced Friday in King County Superior Court to four years in prison after pleading guilty last month to voyeurism charges for placing spy cameras in Expedia office …
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Alex Halverson / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/10/26
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The number of students in Washington’s public schools fell by 9,000 this school year, the biggest single-year drop since enrollment began emerging from pandemic-era lows, according to new state …
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Denisa R. Superville / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/10/26
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A 50-year-old state corrections officer allegedly forced himself on a woman he was supposed to be monitoring.
In exchange for sex, David Garcia gave the woman more freedom to leave her home, …
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Cameron Probert / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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1/10/26
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The notion of humans falling under the thrall of robots has long been the domain of science fiction. It’s now so real lawmakers in Olympia have drawn up a law to do something about it.
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Danny Westneat / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/10/26
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After Renee Good was shot and killed Wednesday morning in Minneapolis by a federal immigration enforcement agent, some Spokane residents joined the national outcry and took to the streets in protest.
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Mathew Callaghan / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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1/10/26
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Kaiser Permanente was fined $300,000 for not ensuring its behavioral and medical coverage remain at parity.
The health insurer allegedly failed to provide documentation showing they comparably …
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Amanda Sullender / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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1/10/26
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State Superintendent of Public Instruction Chris Reykdal wants the state to boost education funding and enact a fairer tax system to pay for it.
Reykdal on Thursday said he supports proposals …
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Denisa R. Superville / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/10/26
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson likely violated state laws by allowing his former top adviser, Mike Webb, to travel with him on a state plane to the Tri-Cities last summer, the state Executive Ethics …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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1/9/26
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Two people shot by federal agents in Portland on Thursday “have some nexus” to the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, Portland Police Chief Bob Day said Friday afternoon.
Both people, …
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By Julia Shumway, Alex Baumhardt, Mia Maldonado and Shaanth Nanguneri / States Newsroom
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1/9/26
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With federal investigations in Minnesota exposing large-scale fraud in child nutrition and Medicaid-related programs, Washington Congressman Michael Baumgartner, a Republican, on Thursday sent a …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/9/26
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Democratic leaders in the Washington state Legislature said Friday they have no plans to hold hearings on two conservative-backed initiatives focused on parental rights of students in public schools …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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1/9/26
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, joined breakaway Republicans and all House Democrats on Thursday in voting to renew Affordable Care Act (ACA) subsidies that expired at the end of 2025.
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The Chronicle and States Newsroom staff
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1/9/26
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