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With dwindling federal funds and a looming state budget shortfall, Washington lawmakers are trying to figure out how to keep paying for services for crime victims.
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By Laurel Demkovich / The Washington State Standard
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2/10/25
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A Democratic-led effort to require clergy members in Washington to report child abuse or neglect, even when it is disclosed in confession, is moving closer to being voted on in both chambers of the …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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2/10/25
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A 35-year-old Grapeview driver accused of crashing into a motorcyclist on the Key Peninsula while under the influence Tuesday has been charged.
Prosecutors charged Zachary Douglas Hines with …
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Puneet Bsanti / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/9/25
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Gender Justice League, a Seattle-based human rights organization, is suing President Donald Trump and his administration over its ban on transgender people serving in the military.
Filed by the …
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Alexandra Yoon-Hendricks / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/25
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Washington state Attorney General Nick Brown filed a federal lawsuit Friday challenging President Trump's executive order blocking funding to medical institutions providing gender-affirming care to …
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Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/9/25
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Statewide bans on feeding wildlife and using bait to hunt big game are among a suite of rules proposed to help Washington limit the spread of chronic wasting disease long into the future.
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Michael Wright / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/9/25
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OLYMPIA — The Washington State Legislature took a step last week toward making senior housing costs more stable.
House Bill 1204, which passed the House Housing Committee Jan. 30, would …
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Joel Martin / Columbia Basin Herald (TNS)
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2/9/25
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King County on Friday joined other so-called "sanctuary" jurisdictions in a lawsuit to be filed against the Trump administration, alleging the federal government is illegally commandeering local law …
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Lauren Girgis / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/25
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A group of senators is sounding the alarm about the potential impacts of the Trump Administration's federal hiring freeze on the country's national parks after seasonal employment offers were …
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Michael Wright / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/9/25
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SEATTLE — Former Washington Husky star and NBA point guard Nate Robinson, who has dealt with renal failure for the past seven years, has a new kidney.
The 40-year-old Robinson made the …
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Percy Allen / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/25
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SEATTLE — The Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium in Tacoma this week welcomed a white striped and speckled Malayan tapir calf.
It’s the second time a tapir, rare and endangered, has …
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Helena Wegner / McClatchy News (TNS)
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2/9/25
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SEATTLE — More than 500 eggs were stolen from a cafe near Seattle on Wednesday morning.
The thieves hit the Luna Park Cafe in West Seattle, located on Southwest Avalon Way, around 4:42 …
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Caitlyn Freeman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/25
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A program to award $71 million in grant funding to install electric vehicle charging stations along priority "alternative fuel corridors" throughout Eastern Washington is on pause following a new …
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Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/9/25
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YAKIMA VALLEY — Erik Molina and Elena Verduzco were headed to McDonald's in their Dodge Ram with their toddler son when they realized they were being followed by a pair of unmarked trucks with …
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Daniel Beekman / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/9/25
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A 40-year-old man who fled from Pierce County deputies while under the influence of drugs and ran a red light, causing a collision that killed a woman in another vehicle and badly injured her …
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Peter Talbot / The News Tribune (TNS)
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2/9/25
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Nearly a month into his inaugural term, Gov. Bob Ferguson has yet to do something nearly all his predecessors have considered part of the job: take questions from reporters at regular news …
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By Jim Brunner and Shauna Sowersby / The Seattle Times
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2/9/25
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Nurses at seven Providence hospitals in Oregon overwhelmingly voted down proposed labor contracts Friday, opting to continue a strike now in its fifth week.
Nurses at Providence Portland Medical …
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Kristine de Leon / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/8/25
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For more than 30 years, Portland police officers have packed up the rocks of confiscated crystal meth, baggies of weed and blocks of powdered fentanyl and made the 38-mile trek to Marion County.
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Maxine Bernstein / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/8/25
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The group behind the 2024 initiative that led to the Parental Bill of Rights in Washington is weighing potential options now that majority Democrats are championing a bill that would repeal most of …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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2/7/25
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The Washington state Department of Ecology is seeing nearly $53 million in federal funding being held up as a result of a recent funding freeze.
Last month, a memo from the White House paused …
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By Spencer Pauley / The Center Square
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2/7/25
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