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Idaho professors sued over abortion discussions in class. Here’s what a judge just ruled

July 5, 2024, 2:32pm Northwest

An Idaho court this week dismissed a lawsuit from college educators over the right to teach about abortion in class, primarily because Attorney General Raúl Labrador said professors who dealt with the subject in school would not be prosecuted under a 2021 anti-abortion rights law. Read story

FILE - Mitch Maddox, a bread route salesman, loads bread Tuesday, May 30, 2006, outside the Eagle Rock Albertsons store in Los Angeles. The Federal Trade Commission on Monday, Feb.

Stakes, and costs, growing in WA’s fight against Kroger-Albertsons merger

FILE - Mitch Maddox, a bread route salesman, loads bread Tuesday, May 30, 2006, outside the Eagle Rock Albertsons store in Los Angeles. The Federal Trade Commission on Monday, Feb.

July 5, 2024, 12:18pm Business

Battling potential grocery monopolies, it turns out, isn’t cheap. Read story

Doctor based at JBLM faces dozens of sexual-abuse charges. There are 41 alleged victims

July 5, 2024, 12:10pm Northwest

A doctor at Joint Base Lewis-McChord is facing dozens of sexual-abuse charges involving 41 patients in a case that has also ensnared the Army in allegations that it failed to protect servicemen at the base. Read story

Joseph DuPuis, co-founder of Doc & Yeti Urban Farms, a licensed cannabis producer, looks out at marijuana buds in Tumwater, Wash., on March 15, 2023. Along the West Coast, which has dominated U.S. marijuana production from long before legalization, producers are struggling with what many call the failed economics of legal pot...a challenge inherent in regulating a product that remains illegal under federal law.

Department of Agriculture to take over testing of cannabis in Washington state

Joseph DuPuis, co-founder of Doc & Yeti Urban Farms, a licensed cannabis producer, looks out at marijuana buds in Tumwater, Wash., on March 15, 2023. Along the West Coast, which has dominated U.S. marijuana production from long before legalization, producers are struggling with what many call the failed economics of legal pot...a challenge inherent in regulating a product that remains illegal under federal law.

July 5, 2024, 8:29am Business

State officials say new oversight of cannabis testing in Washington will standardize quality control. Read story

After reforms, racial inequity in WA 3-strikes law remains, report finds

July 5, 2024, 7:48am Latest News

Recent reforms to Washington’s three-strikes law have done little to address the disproportionate impacts of the law on Black and Indigenous people, a new report found. Read story

Moscow prosecutors decline to charge UI football players suspected in beating of student

July 5, 2024, 7:47am Northwest

The Moscow City Attorney’s Office declined to charge a group of University of Idaho football players suspected of beating and injuring a civil engineering student in February. Read story

USDA awards Colville Tribes $16.5 million for new meat processing facility

July 5, 2024, 7:47am Business

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Development awarded the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation a $16.5 million grant for a new meat processing manufacturing facility in Omak, according to a release. Read story

WSU eyes new building near Jensen-Byrd site

July 5, 2024, 7:45am Northwest

Plans are progressing on what could become a new $60 million to $80 million medical training facility on Washington State University’s Spokane campus. Read story

WA Ecology adds fine to list of liabilities for 2022 fishing boat diesel spill in Salish Sea

July 5, 2024, 7:45am Northwest

A Mount Vernon man has been ordered to pay an $18,000 fine because more than 1,300 gallons of diesel fuel leaked into the Salish Sea when his 58-foot fishing boat sank two years ago off San Juan Island, in critical habitat for orcas, salmon and other wildlife. Read story

The Oregon Zoo is recruiting volunteers to seek out one of the Columbia River Gorge&rsquo;s cutest residents this summer: the American pika.

State wants public’s help in tracking pikas

The Oregon Zoo is recruiting volunteers to seek out one of the Columbia River Gorge&rsquo;s cutest residents this summer: the American pika.

July 5, 2024, 7:45am Life

The state Department of Fish and Wildlife is asking the public’s help in tracking pikas — the small, hamster-like mammals related to rabbits. Read story