Northwest

May is national Chip Your Pet Month

May 3, 2024, 5:27pm Life

Chip Your Pet Month is celebrated every May and is meant to encourage microchipping so pets can be reunited with their owners if they go missing, according to National Today. Read story

FILE - The general view of the Oregon State Hospital is seen, May 24, 2013, in Salem, Ore. A federal report says safety lapses at the Oregon State Hospital contributed to recent patient-on-patient assaults.

Safety lapses contributed to patient assaults at Oregon State Hospital, federal report says

May 3, 2024, 4:11pm Health

Safety lapses at the Oregon State Hospital contributed to recent patient-on-patient assaults, a federal report on the state’s most secure inpatient psychiatric facility has found. Read story

Genesis Perez, 31, who is from Venezuela and is seeking U.S. asylum, waits Tuesday by a tent that she and her family slept in overnight without access to shelter at Powell Barnett Park in Seattle.

Seattle asylum-seekers outside again

May 3, 2024, 3:23pm Northwest

Hundreds of asylum-seekers are back living outside after running out of private donations to cover their stay in hotels and short-term rentals across King County. Read story

The U.S. Oil & Refining Co. in Tacoma has been in operation since 1957. Washington law makers will be fine-tuning the stateís 1-year-old cap-and-invest program during the 2024 Legislative session.

The multimillion-dollar fight over WA’s cap-and-invest program

May 3, 2024, 3:03pm Election Free

Bolstered by an almost $5 million war chest, supporters of Washington’s cap-and-invest program have begun their efforts to keep the state’s carbon pricing system, which is facing a November recall referendum. Read story

Boeing threatens to lock out its private firefighters around Seattle in a dispute over pay

May 3, 2024, 2:58pm Business

Boeing is threatening to lock out its private force of firefighters who protect its aircraft-manufacturing plants in the Seattle area Friday night unless the workers accept the company’s last offer on wages. Read story

Evergreen State to explore Israel divestment after deal with students

May 3, 2024, 7:52am Northwest

Protesters at The Evergreen State College in Olympia agreed to remove their week-old encampment Tuesday night after striking a deal with administrators that includes the school publicly calling for a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war and exploring divestment from companies that profit from “the occupation of Palestinian territories.” Read story

Demand for electricity in Northwest projected to grow 30% in decade, triple previous estimates

May 3, 2024, 6:06am Business Free

Electricity demand in the Northwest is expected to grow more than 30 percent in the next decade, or about 5 percent more than estimated last year and triple the prediction three years ago, industry experts said in a new report. Read story