Washington's two senators helped sponsor a bipartisan bill Thursday that would keep a major export program vital to the state from going out of business. But Congress, which starts a five-week recess this weekend, will have to use parliamentary shortcuts to reauthorize the Export-Import Bank…
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee joined counterparts from Oregon and California today in asking the federal government to ban any new oil and gas drilling off their coasts. In a letter to Interior Secretary Sally Jewell, the three governors said they were strongly opposed to…
OLYMPIA -- The Attorney General's office wants to get involved in a pair of lawsuits between pot businesses and cities that have banned them in an effort to "protect the will of the voters" who legalized the drug in 2012. Attorney General Bob Ferguson said…
For those who haven't had enough of Ted Nugent responding to the Coeur d'Alene Tribe's cancellation of his show scheduled for the casino in early August, we offer this link. He wrote a long guest column as an exclusive for WND in which he refers…
Spokane police and fire departments will be getting $26 million worth of new cars, trucks and equipment, Mayor David Condon said this morning in front of Fire Station No. 4 in Browne's Addition. The money will come partly from raising property taxes by 1 percent…