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Seattle, Everett firefighters drive down to assist California
Everett Fire trucks are heading to fire lines today, not in Washington, but in California.
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Students and parents protest racial slurs at north Seattle school
Parents and students held a protest outside Hazel Wolf K-8 STEM School in north Seattle today calling on school leaders to do more to respond to students’ use of racial slurs.
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How to vote if you're homeless
It’s election season and if you want to vote in Washington state you need to make sure you’re registered. Monday marks the deadline for people registering online.
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First Flood, Then Fright: Community Rallies To Save Eastern Washington Town With Haunting
In the City of Palouse council chambers, Sharon White and Brenda Brown are trying to get their hair just right. They rattle a can of super-hold hairspray before spraying liberally. “Here let me spray and then you pick [your hair],” said Sharon White, a director of events at nearby Washington State University and Palouse resident.
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Report: Giving naloxone to cops saves lives in Washington
Twenty-one people are likely alive today because police officers in Thurston County were armed with a drug overdose reversal medicine, according to a new report by a University of Washington professor of public health.
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Want to dive deep into Seattle City Council campaign finances?
Records of campaign donations and expenditures are always available online through the Seattle Ethics and Elections Commission. But under city law, campaigns also have to hold sort of a public open house for two hours in the week before each election, where anyone can come look at the supporting documentation behind those contributions.
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What's the cost of car tab fees? Washington voters will decide
Next month Washington voters decide if we’re all paying too much for car tab fees or if that flow of money should keep going to public projects like mass transit.
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Crash anniversary starts Boeing CEO's hard week
Tuesday marks a year since the first Boeing MAX crash. It's also the day CEO Dennis Muilenburg faces Congress.
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Rising Northwest waters bring tough choice: fight or flight
The climate’s already changing. People north of Seattle have been facing the muddy consequences head-on.
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Washington's Fawn Sharp elected president of National Congress of American Indians
An indigenous leader from Washington State is the new president of National Congress of American Indians.
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Accused of domestic violence, Seattle port commissioner gets arrested
Seattle police arrested a Port of Seattle Commissioner this week after a report of domestic violence.
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Those vibrant fall colors in the Northwest are likely to stick around for awhile
Kim Malcolm talks with Ray Larson, curator for the University of Washington Botanic Gardens.