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Legislature passes graduation waiver measure

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Law would end driver’s license suspensions over unpaid fines

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State’s South Central Region OK’d to ease COVID rules

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Inslee urges in-person classes; virus school testing increased

SEATTLE — Washington state is expanding COVID-19 testing options for many public schools, and Gov. Jay Inslee has…

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State hosts webinar Thursday on COVID-19 vaccine phases

OLYMPIA — The state Department of Health will host a live webinar today to discuss the phasing and…

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Hairston named administrator and CEO of Bonneville Power Administration

WASHINGTON — The Department of Energy has named John Hairston as administrator and CEO of the Bonneville Power…

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State Legislature approves $2.2 billion in COVID relief

OLYMPIA — A bill that allocates $2.2 billion in federal COVID-19 relief funding in areas ranging from vaccine…

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FEMA rejects Malden fire request for individual assistance

More than 85 percent of buildings burned last summer

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Washington Democrats push new tax on billionaires

Plan could raise $5 billion; detractors fear plan could drive wealthiest out of state

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State plans for mass vaccination sites

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Inslee vaccine plan raises concerns

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FILE - This Aug. 19, 2015, file photo, shows a monarch butterfly in Vista, Calif. The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted to a new record low, putting the orange-and-black insects closer to extinction, researchers announced Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2021. A recent count by the Xerces Society recorded fewer than 2,000 butterflies, a massive decline from the millions of monarchs that in 1980s clustered in trees from Marin County to San Diego County. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull, File)

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Monarch butterfly population moves closer to extinction

SAN FRANCISCO — The number of western monarch butterflies wintering along the California coast has plummeted precipitously to…

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COVID-19 cases up across Washington state

SEATTLE — The state Department of Health said that COVID-19 cases appear to be increasingly sharply statewide in…

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Washington State health officials lay out next steps for COVID-19 vaccines

SEATTLE — Everyone over 70 years old and anyone over 50 who lives in a multigenerational household will…

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Protesters gather on Inslee’s lawn

OLYMPIA — Pro-Trump protesters, many of them armed, broke through a gate at the Washington state governor’s mansion…

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Former Clallam Bay corrections officer dies from COVID-19 complications

TUMWATER — A corrections officer who once worked at Clallam Bay Correctional Center has died of complications of…

FILE - In this Dec. 17, 2020 file photo, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee talks to reporters at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash.  State lawmakers across the country will be convening in 2021 with the continuing COVID-19 pandemic rippling through much of their work — and even affecting the way they work. After 10 months of emergency orders and restrictions from governors and local executive officials, some state lawmakers are eager to reassert their power over statewide decisions shaping the way people shop, work, worship and attend school  (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

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Inslee extends virus restrictions until Jan. 11

Governor to announce next week more details on plan to safely reopen

FILE - In this July 31, 2015 file photo, an orca leaps out of the water near a whale watching boat in the Salish Sea in the San Juan Islands, Wash. Habitat protections for an endangered population of orcas would be greatly expanded under a proposal to be advanced by NOAA Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

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New rules for watching endangered orcas to take effect in 2021

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Probe: Kitsap jail inmate who died improperly subdued

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New rules for watching endangered orcas to take effect

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