Wow, I'm So Glad Democrats Took Back the State Senate So They Could Waste...
The car tab debate is back.by Heidi GrooverCuts to car tab fees will cost Sound Transit. Sound Transit The Washington State Democratic Party spent the entirety of last year urging everyone left of...
View ArticleFive New Restaurants To Try This Weekend
A Wine and Pho Spot, New Ice Cream Flavors, One More Week of 13 Coins, and Moreby Stranger Things To Do StaffIf the rest of the year keeps up at this pace, 2018 is going to be very delicious: January...
View ArticleLast-Minute Plans: 67 Free, Cheap & Easy Things To Do In Seattle This...
by Stranger Things To Do StaffPanicking because you haven't yet made plans for the weekend and you're short on cash? Don't worry—below, find all of your options for last-minute entertainment that won't...
View ArticleHostiles Is a Western Fraught with Significance
by Andrew WrightThe way the West was won... The Western has long been a load-bearing genre, with its trademark wide open spaces and lonesome cowboys providing a tantalizing framework for a wide array...
View ArticleConnelly: Owner of salmon farm sues state to stop closure
Cooke Aquaculture is going to court to block what it calls the state's "unlawful attempt" to shut down the company's Atlantic salmon farm off Ediz Hook at Port Angeles.
View ArticleFiber is good for you. Now scientists may know why.
While the benefits of eating fiber are clear, it’s not so clear why fiber is so great. Recent research indicates the fiber we eat feeds billions of bacteria in our guts and keeping them happy means our...
View ArticleFighting climate change, one laundry load at a time
A Danish biotechnology company is studying mushrooms in order to develop more environmentally friendly detergents that would require less water, or that would work just as effectively at lower...
View ArticleSpokane County drops rape charges against all members of Polish death metal...
Prosecutors have dropped rape and kidnapping charges against all four members of the Polish death metal band Decapitated, stemming from a Spokane concert last summer.
View ArticleConnelly: State Sen. Ericksen, Trump backer, goes to EPA
State Sen. Doug Ericksen, who co-chaired Trump's campaign in Washington, gets regional job with the EPA. He is likely to leave the Legislature.
View ArticleE. coli deaths likely linked to romaine lettuce, officials say
Officials in Canada blamed the leafy green, but their American counterparts are still investigating the cause of an outbreak in the United States.
View ArticleWashington state lands commissioner urges legislators to target carbon pollution
In a letter this week, state Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz called on legislative leaders to pursue ways to reduce greenhouse gases, including a cap-or-penalty system to limit carbon pollution.
View ArticleFerguson lawsuit says OxyContin maker Purdue Pharma partnered with Washington...
Newly unsealed sections of a lawsuit brought by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson against Purdue Pharma show how the company partnered with local doctors to increase prescriptions for a...
View ArticleWashington state attorney general calls OxyContin marketing a ‘massive...
Newly unsealed sections of a lawsuit brought by Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson against Purdue Pharma show how the company partnered with local doctors to increase prescriptions for a...
View ArticleAgency proposes removing rare Oregon fish from endangered list
The Foskett speckled dace, a fish found only in remote waters in southern Oregon, might be removed from the federal endangered species list.
View ArticleWashington state’s school construction budget still tied up over water dispute
About $4 billion in new school construction and other projects throughout the state remain on hold six months after a water-related dispute stalled passage of the state’s two-year construction budget.
View ArticleRepublicans’ yellow brick road always leads back to bashing Seattle
Local Republicans released their plan for getting out of the political wilderness in 2018. It sounds awfully similar to what hasn’t worked for them in this state in decades.
View ArticleMicrosoft argues against class action in gender-bias lawsuit
The lawsuit against Microsoft, filed by three current or former female employees, is seeking class-action status, which could add 8,630 women to the list of plaintiffs.
View ArticleBainbridge, Bremerton ferry schedules to shift for Colman Dock renovation in...
The schedule changes are being made to accommodate the six-year, $350 million renovation of Seattle's Colman Dock. The work began in August. In March, about half the current terminal will be...
View ArticleGeologist warns Yakima-area landslide could be worse than officials expect
Contractors for a quarry firm say most of the slide will wind up in its mined-out pit, but an independent expert warns the slide could go crashing into Interstate 82 and the Yakima River.
View ArticleDespite DOJ move, Louisiana moving ahead with medical pot
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana officials are trying to understand what U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ dictate on federal marijuana prosecutions could mean for the state’s burgeoning medical...
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