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WA’s capital gains tax, facing repeal, helps fund early learning

October 29, 2024, 6:00am Clark County Politics

The judges had their say, and now it’s voters’ turn. Read story

New police recruits practice traffic stop arrests at Washington's Criminal Justice Training Center in Burien on April 2. Washington state provides police officers with just one hour of training on handling hate crimes throughout their 720-hour basic police academy training despite recent rises in hate crimes or acts of discrimination.

WA police get one hour of hate-crime training despite rising cases

New police recruits practice traffic stop arrests at Washington's Criminal Justice Training Center in Burien on April 2. Washington state provides police officers with just one hour of training on handling hate crimes throughout their 720-hour basic police academy training despite recent rises in hate crimes or acts of discrimination.

October 28, 2024, 12:14pm Courts & Crime

When antisemitic graffiti appeared on the Western Washington University campus last November, student Maddie Pelkey took her concerns directly to the campus police chief. Read story

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Washington still relying on ‘stopgap’ tracking software for cannabis industry

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October 28, 2024, 12:11pm Business

It’s been over a decade since Washington legalized recreational marijuana — but the state still isn’t able to reliably track cannabis from production through processing to retail sale. Read story

Shortage of IV fluids caused by Hurricane Helene felt by local hospitals

October 28, 2024, 10:43am Northwest

Hurricane Helene, which ravaged the Southeast in late September, is impacting Skagit County in the form of a national IV fluid shortage. Read story

A semi trailer truck is stuck in a mudslide on Interstate 5 near a pedestrian crossing north of the Iowa Street overpass. The driver was uninjured, the Bellingham Fire Department said.

Landslide blocks Interstate 5 in Bellingham amid deluge of water. More heavy rain possible

A semi trailer truck is stuck in a mudslide on Interstate 5 near a pedestrian crossing north of the Iowa Street overpass. The driver was uninjured, the Bellingham Fire Department said.

October 28, 2024, 9:54am Northwest

Interstate 5 in Bellingham opened about 3 p.m. Sunday after a 10-hour closure due to a landslide triggered by torrential rain that blocked the freeway. Read story

FILE - In this combination image, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a debate, Oct. 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a debate, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta.

Some Washington agricultural communities fear a second Donald Trump presidency as deportation threats persist

FILE - In this combination image, Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., speaks during a debate, Oct. 7, 2020, in Salt Lake City, left, and Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump speaks during a debate, June 27, 2024, in Atlanta.

October 28, 2024, 9:53am Latest News

José Portillo looks up at a picture of former President Barack Obama near his desk. Read story

Crash of as many as 45 vehicles blocks southbound I-5 Sunday afternoon near Kent

October 28, 2024, 9:52am Northwest

Southbound Interstate 5 lanes near Kent were blocked for about three hours Sunday afternoon because of a multiple-vehicle crash, according to the Washington State Patrol, the state Department of Transportation and area fire crews. Read story

Olympia developer says housing project is stalled by state office tenant with remote workers. Why?

October 28, 2024, 9:50am Northwest

Downtown developer Ken Brogan, known for turning an office building between Capitol Lake and Budd Inlet into the Views on Fifth mixed-use housing, has a new project ready to go. Read story

Two WA Republicans: One voted to impeach, one says Jan. 6 was ‘a setup’

October 28, 2024, 9:38am Election

U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse is strongly anti-abortion. He gets near-perfect scores from the NRA. He wants to build a wall on the southern border and warns that the "Radical Left and mainstream news media" are trying to destroy "our country, our values and our God-given rights." Read story

Buttons, who the Associated Press is referring to only by her childhood nickname because of her legal status, sits for a portrait behind her baby photo taken before she was adopted from Iran to a family in America, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. Buttons is one of thousands of children adopted from abroad by American parents, many of them military service members, who were left without citizenship by loopholes in American law that Congress has been aware of for decades, yet remains unwilling to fix.

Thousands of children adopted by Americans are without citizenship. Congress is unwilling to act

Buttons, who the Associated Press is referring to only by her childhood nickname because of her legal status, sits for a portrait behind her baby photo taken before she was adopted from Iran to a family in America, Monday, June 24, 2024, in Henderson, Nev. Buttons is one of thousands of children adopted from abroad by American parents, many of them military service members, who were left without citizenship by loopholes in American law that Congress has been aware of for decades, yet remains unwilling to fix.

October 28, 2024, 6:06am Latest News

The 50-year-old newspaper was turning yellow and its edges fraying, so she had it laminated, not as a memento but as proof — America made a promise to her, and did not keep it. Read story