A Ninth Circuit panel denied for-profit immigration prison operator Geo Group’s request for relief from a federal judge’s order compelling production of its financial records in a labor dispute with Washington state, given the state’s promise to keep sensitive information from becoming public.
Read moreThe Washington state Legislature sued Governor Jay Inslee on Friday over his vetoes of a single sentence lawmakers say are illegal under the state Constitution.
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Washington Governor Jay Inslee is a little closer to qualifying to appear in the third Democratic presidential debate after passing the 130,000 unique donor threshold Monday.
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Wildlife conservationists sued federal ocean management agencies Monday in an effort to spur protections for endangered killer whales whose foraging habits off the Pacific Northwest coast have been disrupted by noise from ships and other vessels.
Read moreWashington state’s rules allowing corporate timberlands to use traps, bait and dogs to kill bears are legal, a judge ruled Friday, even though voters banned those exact methods decades ago.
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An endangered population of orca whales continued to decline this summer, with three presumed dead while the remaining 73 search the ocean for their main food source: dwindling numbers of Chinook salmon.
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The Washington Redskins will become the first NFL team to have a gambling-focused telecast of their games, offering cash prizes to viewers who correctly predict game outcomes during the preseason.
Read moreWashington state will use its own money to reimburse family planning clinics that lost federal funding following a Trump administration directive gagging Title X recipients from telling patients about abortion services.
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Seattle’s income tax on wealthy residents is unconstitutional, the Washington Court of Appeals held, but left the door open for the city to impose property taxes based on income if they are uniform across tax brackets.
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A man armed with a rifle threw incendiary devices at an immigration jail in Washington state early Saturday morning, then was found dead after four police officers arrived and opened fire, authorities said.
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Washington Governor Jay Inslee revealed his opposition Wednesday to the Trump administration’s plan to remove gray wolves from the federal Endangered Species List – contradicting the position of the state’s Fish & Wildlife director, who also Wednesday announced the state will kill two federally protected wolves because they hunted cattle grazing on public land.
Read moreWashington state sued the U.S. Navy on environmental grounds, for authorizing a 33% increase in EA-18G Growler aircraft operations at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, in Puget Sound.
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For the second straight summer, mountain goats are flying in Olympic National Park.
Read moreThe Department of the Interior and Bureau of Reclamation’s Yakima River Basin Integrated Management Plan Alternative includes a pumping station that will lower Lake Kachess by 82 feet, increasing fire risks, impairing water supplies and hurting property values, the Kachess Community Association claims in a federal complaint.
Read moreBikini baristas in Washington state must modify their signature skimpy outfits, the Ninth Circuit ruled Wednesday, finding a city-imposed dress code for restaurants is not a restriction on free speech.
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It is unconstitutional to deny bond hearings to asylum seekers, a federal judge in Washington state ruled Tuesday.
Read moreWashington state lawmakers illegally withhold records routinely provided to the public by other elected officials, an attorney for a coalition of news agencies told a panel of the state’s high court justices Tuesday.
Read moreA distinctive songbird with feather “horns” will get another shot at being listed as endangered after a federal judge ruled Monday the government must explain why it listed the species only as threatened despite finding it could cease to exist in parts of its range within 20 years.
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