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The Washington Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the CARES Act’s 30-day eviction notice requirement for subsidized housing only applies to instances of nonpayment of rent.
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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2/20/25
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A companion Senate bill to a House proposal setting Washington on a course toward a compulsory pay-per-mile program has generated similar skepticism over its ultimate form, including whether it would …
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By TJ Martinell / The Center Square
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2/20/25
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Washington state’s attempt to block the Trump administration’s plan to restrict birthright citizenship could soon be headed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
An appeals court late …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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2/20/25
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Some Washington state lawmakers want to slow down on specialty license plates once they steer several more across the finish line this session.
An omnibus bill approving seven new plates, …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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2/19/25
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The Washington attorney general’s office last week asked a federal appeals court to restore a state law regulating the federal immigrant detention center in Tacoma, calling conditions there …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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2/19/25
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A bill to cap yearly rent increases cleared another obstacle in the state Senate on Wednesday.
A year after a similar bill died in the Senate Housing Committee, the panel approved legislation …
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By Laurel Demkovich / The Washington State Standard
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2/19/25
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Overcrowding in the state’s juvenile and adult corrections facilities would be relieved under a plan from state Sen. Leonard Christian to house inmates at the state Capitol Campus and give …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/19/25
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A former supervisor at a U.S. Postal Service distribution center in Tacoma has pleaded guilty to opening mail that wasn’t directed to her and stealing gift cards and money meant for at least 53 …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A 3.0-magnitude earthquake shook the western part of Washington on Tuesday, Feb. 18, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
The 5.4-mile deep quake hit about 7 miles east from Greenwater at 9:54 …
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Helena Wegner / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A 3-year-old boy was found walking along Wheeler Avenue alone last week, prompting a 911 call, according to Olympia police.
About 5 p.m. Feb. 10, a person was driving on the street, which …
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Rolf Boone / The Olympian (TNS)
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2/19/25
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The Idaho Legislature is considering a move to end a 50-year partnership with the University of Washington to train future Idaho doctors.
Since 1972, Idahoans training to be physicians have been …
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Amanda Sullender / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/19/25
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SAN FRANCISCO — Damian Lillard might as well be an adopted Seattle player that’s currently in the NBA but not from the city.
Remember all his years just down the road in Portland?
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Tim Booth / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A 15-year-old boy died early Monday in Graham after a “mortar-type firework” went off near his body, the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office said.
The teenager and four other boys …
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Shea Johnson / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/19/25
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Three cats from a single Clackamas County household tested positive for bird flu this week, marking the latest infections across Oregon in the past two months, state officials confirmed Tuesday.
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Carlos Fuentes / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A Beaverton man convicted of sexually assaulting multiple women in a sparse apartment that prosecutors said he rented to carry out the attacks was sentenced Tuesday to the equivalent of a true life …
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Noelle Crombie / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/19/25
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A federal jury has awarded a Madras man $190,000 for emotional distress and $17,000 for lost wages after finding that Oregon-based Cal Farms violated his rights by hiring temporary foreign workers …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/19/25
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Can Washington state hold off harvesting older forests in the face of a projected $12 billion budget deficit without impacting local governments and school districts that get money from those timber …
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By Libby Denkmann and Alec Cowan / KUOW
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2/19/25
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A landlord from Silver Lake has been sentenced to nearly six years for child molestation after reportedly asking his tenant if he could have sex with the man's teen.
Brian James Wheeler, 62, was …
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By Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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2/19/25
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The number of data centers around the Pacific Northwest has exploded in recent decades, growing from less than two dozen in 2008 to more than 200 across Oregon and Washington today.
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Henry Brannan / Murrow News
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2/19/25
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There’s controversy gusting through the Washington Legislature over a proposed redesign of the state flag.
House Bill 1938 , sponsored by Rep. Strom Peterson, D-Edmonds, would create …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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2/19/25
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