Washington shutters pot businesses due to old pesticide
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Cannabis regulators have halted operations at several outdoor pot farms and processing facilities…
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New Seattle airport terminal lacks space for enough planes
SEATTLE (AP) — The new, billion-dollar international terminal at Seattle’s airport that opened last year was supposed to fit 20 large planes side…
Continue Reading Microchips or microgreens? Oregon tweaks farm protection law
By ANDREW SELSKY Associated Press SALEM, Ore. (AP) — Oregon is changing a half-century-old land-use law to make room for semiconductor development…
Continue Reading Biden vetoes bill that sought to toss EPA water protections
By MATTHEW DALY Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending his administration’s actions on clean water, President Joe Biden on Thursday…
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Idaho governor signs ‘abortion trafficking’ bill into law
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legal limits on abortion-related travel are the focus of a new law and a new lawsuit in Idaho, with Gov. Brad Little signing a…
Continue Reading Idaho governor signs ‘abortion trafficking’ bill into law
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Legal limits on abortion-related travel are the focus of a new law and a new lawsuit in Idaho, with Gov. Brad Little signing a…
Continue Reading Idaho governor signs ‘abortion trafficking’ bill making it illegal to help minors get abortion without parental consent
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho governor signs ‘abortion trafficking’ bill making it illegal to help minors get abortion without parental…
Continue Reading Idaho to ban gender-affirming care for transgender youth
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Starting next year, anyone in Idaho who provides gender-affirming medical care for…
Continue Reading Harassment case dropped after judge finds no probable cause
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — Prosecutors in Washington state have dropped a long-running harassment case against a man who had…
Continue Reading Indiana, Idaho governors sign bans on gender-affirming care
By ARLEIGH RODGERS Associated Press/Report for America INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Republican governors in Indiana and Idaho have signed into law bills…
Continue Reading Washington stocks up on abortion pills ahead of court ruling
By LISA BAUMANN Associated Press BELLINGHAM, Wash. (AP) — Washington state has purchased a three-year supply of a leading abortion medication in…
Continue Reading Caregivers: Returning orca Lolita to Northwest is risky
By GENE JOHNSON Associated Press SEATTLE (AP) — A plan announced last week to return Lolita, a killer whale held captive for more than a…
Continue Reading Washington state man pleads guilty in Jan. 6 insurrection
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Washington state man accused of entering the U.S. Capitol with a pro-Trump mob during the Jan. 6 deadly insurrection has…
Continue Reading 2 men die in plane crash near Oregon-Idaho border
OXBOW, Ore. (AP) — Two men died in a small plane crash near the Oregon-Idaho border on Sunday, according to the Baker County Sheriffs Office. Two…
Continue Reading Man convicted of aggravated murder in death of officer
EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A man accused of killing a police officer in Washington state last year has been convicted of aggravated first-degree murder.…
Continue Reading Lawyers screen potential jurors in Idaho slain kids’ trial
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — As the trial of a woman charged in three killings in what prosecutors say was a…
Continue Reading Doomsday plot? After 3 years, slain kids’ mom to stand trial
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — It has been more than three years since police announced that two kids were missing from a…
Continue Reading Man charged with murder in deaths of missing mom, girl
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — The man named as a person of interest in the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend and her 7-year-old daughter was charged…
Continue Reading Mug shot as a political boost? Some politicians have tried
By WILL WEISSERT Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — A celebrity and insatiable publicity hound long before he was president, Donald Trump has been…
Continue Reading Bill to criminalize help for Idaho minors’ abortions passes
By REBECCA BOONE Associated Press BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A bill that would criminalize helping minors obtain an abortion without parental consent won…
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