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More than 9,000 children in foster care had to temporarily stay in hotels, office buildings and other potentially unsafe settings when states couldn’t find suitable places for them, according to a …
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Robbie Sequeira / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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7/30/26
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In 49 states, the number of people enrolled in Obamacare plans has declined since Congress made coverage more expensive by allowing federal subsidies to expire at the end of last year.
The lone …
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Shalina Chatlani / States Newsroom
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7/30/26
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Idaho Gov. Brad Little signed a wildfire disaster emergency Tuesday and deployed the Idaho National Guard to help fight the Big Grass Fire burning along the border of Oregon and Idaho, Little’s …
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Clark Corbin / Idaho Capital Sun
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7/30/26
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Greenhouse gas emissions in Washington will need to plummet over the next three and a half years to comply with ambitious state climate regulations.
This will require steep reductions in vehicle …
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Aspen Ford / Washington State Standard
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7/30/26
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Washington is seeking an estimated $76 million in federal reimbursements for repairs to highways damaged in December’s historic flooding.
The state expects the Federal Highway …
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Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
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7/30/26
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Seattle Storm co-owner Celeste Keaton is under increasing pressure following an outburst during Tuesday night’s Storm game against the Indiana Fever at Climate Pledge Arena.
Keaton allegedly …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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7/29/26
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Two people were injured and two closed businesses in downtown Olympia were damaged in a widely witnessed shootout early Saturday morning.
On-foot patrol officers with the Olympia Police …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@thurstonchronicle.com
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7/29/26
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The Oregon Department of Corrections and the Oregon Youth Authority are failing to meet the basic needs of people in custody with limited English proficiency, leading to isolation and gaps in medical …
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Noelle Crombie / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/29/26
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Confusion and questions continue to swirl around the city's immediate response to Sunday night's shooting at Seattle Center that left three people dead and at least four injured, including criticisms …
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Mike Carter and Nicholas Deshais / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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Employees at Capitol Hill restaurant Single Shot had more than $1 million taken from their paychecks — money that their employer withheld but didn’t pay to the IRS.
Single Shot Kitchen and …
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Mirandah Davis-Powell / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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There’s some good news for Washington in the U.S. News & World Report “Best States” rankings for 2026: We've finally reversed our recent slide.
In the new report, released Tuesday, …
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Gene Balk / FYI Guy / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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Kayla Carabes stood in Seattle's Bergen Place Park on Sunday holding a large oil painting of everyone's favorite short-spined raccoon, depicting the world-famous critter as a giant towering among the …
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Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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Shellfish growers Nate Wight and Amber Taulbee should have been out on the tidelands this month harvesting Pacific oysters for grocery stores, restaurants and The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
But …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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Friday marks the beginning of Seafair Weekend Festival — the annual extravaganza featuring hydroplane races, the U.S. Navy Blue Angels and more — which is expected to draw a crowd of 180,000 …
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Olivia Petty / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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Fourteen spent cartridge casings from two handguns — one of them a “ghost gun, the other equipped with an illegal “switch” to enable automatic fire — were among the evidence collected by …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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Seattle Public Schools is appealing the $8 million verdict tied to a 2018 incident in which a former math teacher hit a then-middle school student and ejected him from the classroom.
A King …
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Denisa R. Superville / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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Sally Storch's parents flew out from the East Coast to babysit her toddler so she could take the state bar exam this week in Yakima. Allison Harvey-Chen arranged her honeymoon around the test. Ian …
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Joseph O’Sullivan / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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A group of Washington home sellers will get more than $1.5 million in refunds after an Oregon-based homebuilder charged them illegal fees, according to the Washington state attorney general’s …
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Heidi Groover / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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7/29/26
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A 42-year-old woman on Monday was sentenced to time served - a night spent in jail - for pulling a federal immigration officer’s face mask off.
In April, Temika Gardner pleaded guilty to the …
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/29/26
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An Abraham Lincoln statue is set to return to Portland’s South Park Blocks seven years after protesters toppled it during the city’s 2020 racial justice demonstrations. But its new perch — …
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Anusha Fathepure / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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7/29/26
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