Unregulated sales of cannabis oil spike in Iowa
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Unregulated sales of cannabis oil have been ramping up in Iowa even as state officials work to set up a tightly regulated distribution system. The Des Moines Register reports...
View ArticleTrump’s actions re-ignite states’ rights debate
Lawmakers and others in Democratic-leaning states have been howling over the past year about actions by the Trump administration and congressional Republicans that they say have undermined states’...
View ArticleOne dead, one injured in White Center shooting
A 51-year-old man was killed and 35-year-old man is in critical condition after being shot outside a White Center bar early Saturday morning. The King County Sheriff’s Office says the incident occurred...
View ArticleNASA: Legendary astronaut, moonwalker John Young has died
Legendary astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon and later commanded the first space shuttle flight, has died, NASA said Saturday. Young was 87. The space agency said Young died Friday night at...
View ArticlePOTUS: The President of the United States Is, Like, Not Stupid
by Dan SavageIn fact... he's, like, super smart and stuff. This morning's twitter rant, direct from Camp David: Now that Russian collusion, after one year of intense study, has proven to be a total...
View ArticleDying patients who donate their faces while still alive get high-tech...
Up till now, the best medicine could offer a donor as a replacement face was a silicone mask cast from a mold, with features painted on.
View ArticleMaking high-tech copies of faces donated by terminal patients while still alive
Up till now, the best that medicine could offer a donor as a replacement face was a silicone mask cast from a mold, with features painted on.
View ArticleOregonians hate your ‘they don’t know how to pump their own gas’ jokes
Under a law that went into effect this week, Oregon counties with fewer than 40,000 residents no longer must abide by the state law requiring attendants to pump fuel at gas stations.
View Article2 Seattle-area Democrats in new leadership roles as Legislature readies to...
With Democrats in control of the state Senate, Sen. Sharon Nelson of Maury Island and Sen. Christine Rolfes of Bainbridge Island will help chart a course for the 60-day legislative session that begins...
View ArticleOlympia gets rid of its anti-panhandling rules following state Supreme Court...
The city of Olympia has removed references to panhandling from its municipal code in response to a Washington state Supreme Court decision that partially invalidated a Lakewood ordinance restricting...
View ArticleCongress cheers medical research, balks at medical care
Lawmakers are pushing for billions in new funding for biomedical research, but sparring over health insurance and almost everything else related to the Affordable Care Act.
View ArticleTeens make Rubik’s Cube tactile for visually impaired
Two friends found a way to adapt the popular puzzle, then helped some students at the Washington State School for the Blind learn how to solve it.
View ArticleLow-power FM stations growing, especially in Northwest
Low-power nonprofit FM stations are the still, small voices of media. They whisper out from basements and attics, and from minuscule studios and on-the-fly live broadcasts.
View ArticleLiquor industry puts booze-label experiment on ice
The government stopped affixing the labels after several alcohol industry lobbying groups challenged both the research study and the legality of the government’s participation.
View ArticleControversy over call for crackdown on homeless near Windsor Castle before...
Last month, while on a ski vacation in Wyoming, Simon Dudley tweeted about an “epidemic of rough sleeping and vagrancy in Windsor,” which he said paints the historical market town in an “unfavorable...
View ArticleDozens evacuate before potential Yakima landslide; ‘Oso. We don’t want to...
For the 63 residents at a collection of trailers and small buildings at the base of a potential slide zone, moving has meant being scared of ominous sounds, packing their belongings, living in a motel...
View ArticleIf you think Seattle traffic is bad now, just wait until these projects start
There’ll be no escaping construction in downtown Seattle any time soon. Transportation planners are calling 2018 to 2021 the "period of maximum constraint." And they’ve invented the slogan "One Center...
View ArticleObama Appointee Who Predicted Russian Interference Says Seattle Election Law...
by Eli SandersAnn Ravel used to chair the Federal Election Commission. She praised Seattle's "forward-thinking" law on digital ad transparency and said other local governments should adopt similar...
View ArticleNampa police investigating after bodies of 2 men found
Police investigating after two bodies found in Nampa, Idaho, apartment.
View ArticlePalisades man dies in rollover accident on Interstate 90
The westbound vehicle crossed the median into oncoming lanes and rolled, coming to rest on the eastbound shoulder
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