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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A Washington lawmaker has introduced legislation that would prevent an inmate convicted of a physical or sexual assault from being housed in a cell with another inmate of the opposite sex.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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2/7/25
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Washington Attorney General Nick Brown on Friday sued the Trump administration over an executive order threatening to stop federal funding for gender-affirming care for transgender youth.
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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2/7/25
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One of the loudest crowds in the NFL – Seattle Seahawks fans – could soon get a day of their own to celebrate as Washington lawmakers look to make Dec. 12, the “Day of the …
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By: Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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2/7/25
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Washington State University has its next leader.
On Thursday, Elizabeth “Betsy” Cantwell, president of Utah State University, was named the WSU’s 12th president. She …
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By Nick Gibson / The Spokesman-Review
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2/7/25
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U.S. Sen. Maria Cantwell, D-Washington, and a group of fellow senators published a letter Wednesday demanding immediate hearings to discuss reports of the newly created Department of Government …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/7/25
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The Washington state Senate on Thursday, Feb. 6, passed a bill 49-0 that, if signed into law, would officially deem Washington the “Evergreen State.”
This marks the third year in a …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/7/25
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, recently made a swing through Wahkiakum County in a visit that included a meeting with local log truck drivers, a talk with the Wahkiakum County Public …
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By The Chronicle staff
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2/7/25
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Brian Kernagis, a Vancouver-area marketing manager, voted early.
Around 5 or 6 p.m. on Oct. 27, a week before the general election last year, he put his and his girlfriend’s ballots …
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By Daniel Walters / InvestigateWest
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2/7/25
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Members of Washington's medical and scientific community have spent the past two weeks scrambling to understand and respond to recent federal changes that appear to limit and threaten parts of their …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/7/25
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Seattle Children's hospital is postponing some gender-affirming surgeries for people under 19, families say, following an executive order from President Donald Trump that decrees a halt to federal …
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Elise Takahama / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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2/7/25
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The latest appointments to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission were sent back to the governor's office on Wednesday, stalling the confirmation process before hearings were scheduled.
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Michael Wright / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/7/25
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WASHINGTON — Since the end of World War II, the United States has remained a global power through foreign policy defined by what retired Ambassador Ryan Crocker calls a "three-legged stool" of …
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Orion Donovan Smith / The Spokesman-Review (TNS)
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2/7/25
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Firefighters extinguished a recreational vehicle fire near Black Lake Wednesday and found a dead body inside.
The McLane Black Lake Fire Department responded at 11:48 p.m. to a report of a …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian (TNS)
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2/7/25
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Some striking Providence nurses appeared unwilling to accept the tentative labor agreement reached with the health system this week, raising the possibility that the largest health care strike in …
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Kristine de Leon / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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2/7/25
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A Cowlitz County man charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol has been pardoned following President Donald Trump’s sweeping clemency for the reported 1,500-plus people charged with …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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2/7/25
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More than 2,600 people signed on to support a school choice bill that received a public hearing Thursday in Olympia.
House Bill 1140 , sponsored by Rep. Travis Couture, R-Allyn, would create …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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2/7/25
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