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News >  WA Government

Inslee extends economic ‘pause’ until July 28, warns of ‘risk’ of increased restrictions

UPDATED: Tue., July 14, 2020

OLYMPIA – The “pause” in Washington’s economic reopening will be extended for at least two more weeks as the state tries to stem the rising number of COVID-19 cases, Gov. Jay Inslee said Tuesday.

News >  WA Government

Insurance Commissioner race pits 20-year veteran against two newcomers

UPDATED: Thu., Oct. 22, 2020

When Washington voters pare down the field of insurance commissioner candidates in the Aug. 4 primary, they will have three very different options from which to choose.

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State wants quick hearing to block new student visa rules

UPDATED: Mon., July 13, 2020

Washington’s colleges and universities have more than 20,000 foreign students who could be forced out of the country or barred from entering it under proposed Trump administration’s new immigration rules, the state said Monday.

News >  WA Government

There’s a long list of people who want to take on Jay Inslee, but five have the best chance

UPDATED: Thu., July 23, 2020

The list of contenders to take Gov. Jay Inslee's job is long, but only five are actively campaigning and raising money. Here are the Republicans likely to emerge from the August primary as Inslee's challenger in the general election. 

News >  WA Government

11 candidates compete to be next Washington’s lieutenant governor

UPDATED: Mon., July 20, 2020

For the second election cycle in a row, the race for Washington’s lieutenant governor post has drawn a large and diverse field of candidates for a job that straddles the executive and legislative branches of state government.

News >  WA Government

WSU begins analyzing COVID-19 samples as testing supplies run short and results lag

UPDATED: Tue., July 7, 2020

Washington State University will begin analyzing samples for COVID-19, as case counts continue to climb in Eastern Washington and the demand for more testing capacity does as well.

News >  WA Government

‘Faithless’ electors can be fined, U.S. Supreme Court says

UPDATED: Mon., July 6, 2020

In 2016, four Washington state representatives to the Electoral College refused to vote for the state's winner, Hillary Clinton. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled the state was on solid footing when it fined those "faithless electors."

News >  WA Government

Spin Control: A Yankee Doodle trivia quiz

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 3, 2020

On July Fourth, Spin Control gives its readers a chance to to prove they are Yankee Doodlest of dandies with its annual Independence Day Trivia Quiz. Some are things everyone who bleeds red, white and blue should know, and a few things are, well, trivia. 

News >  Pacific NW

‘It’s a complicated thing’: Meaning of the Fourth of July in flux as fight for equal rights continues

Fri., July 3, 2020

When Jamie Stacy gets together with her family Saturday on the Fourth of July, there won’t be much talk of the document that was approved on that day in 1776.

News >  WA Government

Three Republicans challenging Attorney General Bob Ferguson’s bid for third term

UPDATED: Tue., Sept. 29, 2020

The difference four years makes in Washington elections is probably most obvious in the state attorney general’s race.

News >  WA Government

Court considers fate of $30 car tabs initiative

UPDATED: Tue., June 30, 2020

OLYMPIA – A ballot measure that reduced most vehicle taxes and fees should be thrown out as misleading because the $30 tabs it promotes won’t exist and it’s guilty of “logrolling” by including more than one topic, attorneys for local governments opposing the proposal told the state Supreme Court Tuesday.

Spin Control: How not to suggest tearing down buildings

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 3, 2020

On the southeast edge of the main Capitol Campus are two aging residential buildings that aren’t much to look at.

News >  Idaho

Sunday paper is the end of an era as downtown press closes

Sun., June 28, 2020

Today's newspaper represents the end of more than 125 years of tradition. Starting tonight, The Spokesman-Review will be printed on a new press in Spokane Valley, bringing an end to newspaper printing in downtown Spokane. 

News >  Higher education

Washington colleges will open with strict COVID-19 safeguards

UPDATED: Wed., June 24, 2020

OLYMPIA – Washington colleges will open this fall with strict guidelines designed to protect students, faculty and staff from the spread of COVID-19.

News >  Spokane

Masks to become mandatory in Washington

UPDATED: Thu., July 23, 2020

OLYMPIA – Washington residents will be required to wear masks in public starting Friday as a way to slow the spread of COVID-19.

News >  Crime/Public Safety

Inslee names members of policing and social justice task force

UPDATED: Tue., June 30, 2020

A combination of law enforcement officials, community activists, religious leaders and members of minority groups were named by Gov. Jay Inslee to a task force on policing and social justice.

News >  WA Government

Spin Control: What’s in a name? For some counties, history

UPDATED: Thu., Sept. 3, 2020

Perhaps Pierce County could look to M*A*S*H for some help with its namesake troubles.

News >  WA Government

Yakima County residents being ordered to wear face masks in public

UPDATED: Sat., June 20, 2020

Residents of Yakima County will soon be required to wear face coverings when outside their homes.

News >  Washington

New jobless claims in Washington drop slightly but unpaid backlog remains

UPDATED: Thu., June 18, 2020

The number of Washington workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits continued to drop last week.

News >  WA Government

State budget faces $4.5 billion hole; special session expected

UPDATED: Wed., June 17, 2020

The state's budget faces a $4.5 billion hole over the next year as the economy contracts and tax revenues fall from the COVID-19 pandemic.

News >  Spokane

Bar association says feds looking into Shea, will delay work on complaint filed by Knezovich

UPDATED: Tue., June 16, 2020

The FBI is investigating state Rep. Matt Shea regarding his role during several armed standoffs with federal agents over the past several years.

News >  Washington

For economic recovery, ‘virus is the boss’

UPDATED: Tue., June 16, 2020

The economic downturn from the COVID-19 pandemic is unlike any the country has ever seen, so it’s difficult to say whether normal rules for recessions apply, a former chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers told a state Senate panel Tuesday.

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Judge upholds Inslee emergency proclamation, business closures

UPDATED: Mon., June 15, 2020

Gov. Jay Inslee's stay-home order and system of reopening businesses in phases is within his authority to protect the public, a federal judge has ruled.

News >  Business

National Guard to help with state’s jobless backlog

UPDATED: Thu., June 11, 2020

0LYMPIA – Washington is calling out the National Guard to help with another problem connected to the COVID-19 pandemic: clearing up a backlog of claims for unemployment benefits by out-of-work residents, and separating them from fraudulent claims that have cost hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Referendum to repeal sex ed law gathers record number of signatures despite pandemic

UPDATED: Wed., June 10, 2020

OLYMPIA – Despite stay-home orders and restrictions on gathering required by the COVID-19 pandemic, supporters of an effort to repeal a new law on comprehensive sexual education programs in state schools gathered a record-number of signatures to put it on the November ballot.