OLYMPIA – Keeping a dog chained up in unsafe conditions could get the owner fined under a proposed state law being considered by the state Senate. Good senators, said supporters who told the Senate Judiciary that chained or tethered dogs are more likely to turn…
OLYMPIA -- Mid-January storms caused enough damage in Western Washington counties to rate a state of emergency declaration from Gov. Chris Gregoire today. Gregoire said preliminary estimates put the damage to homes, businesses, highways and public faciilties from storms between Jan. 9 and Jan. 26…
A new poll of 400 likely Republican primary voters suggests President Barack Obama should cue up a Bruce Springsteen song as his campaign anthem. Only about one in four believes he was born in the USA. The poll was designed to test the relative strength…
Monday is Presidents Day. In honor of that, you can avoid putting those little round metal things with portraits of George Washington, Franklin Roosevelt or Thomas Jefferson in city parking meters. In other words, it's a parking meter holiday.
OLYMPIA -- A long day of hearings as the Legislature approaches its first deadline for getting bills out of their first committee. Senate Judiciary Committee has a hearing on a bill that lrequires chained or tethered dogs be treated in a humane manner, and another…
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