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Regulators say Amazon obstructed investigations into warehouse safety violations

Washington state officials say Amazon has stonewalled workplace safety inspectors by attempting to prevent them from entering Amazon warehouse facilities.
- Paige Browning
For the Northwest, climate change was hard to ignore in 2021

Climate chaos doesn’t wait around until nothing else is going on.
- John Ryan
Republican Senator Doug Ericksen, is dead at 52 after Covid diagnosis

Washington state Sen. Doug Ericksen, a Whatcom County Republican, has died, according to an announcement from the Senate Republican Caucus on Saturday. The cause of death was not immediately known.
- Austin Jenkins
Voter redistricting maps by commission can go forth, WA Supreme Court says

In a surprise order Friday morning, the Washington Supreme Court declined to take on the job of drafting new congressional and legislative maps. Instead, the court declared that the state's Redistricting Commission had finished its work on time last month.
- Austin Jenkins
Easy-to-use digital vaccination verification launches in Washington state

Need to prove your Covid-19 vaccination status in Washington state? There’s a new, digital way to do that in as little time as a minute.
- Liz Brazile
More than 630 days and counting. When will Inslee’s state of emergency end?

For months, minority Republicans in the Washington Legislature have called for limits on the governor’s emergency powers. But now even some Democrats are expressing concerns about the open-endedness of the COVID-19 state of emergency and the limited role of state lawmakers.
- Austin Jenkins
Makah Tribe works to obtain food provisions after landslides close highways

Makah tribal officials say record rainfall last weekend resulted in landslides and washouts that initially cut off access to their reservation at Neah Bay. They've been working to ensure access to food, medicine and fuel as tenuous travel routes are restored.
- Amy Radil
What Washington state pledged at the Glasgow climate summit, and what activists say

West Coast leaders promised to phase out gas vehicles, ramp up land protections while in Glasgow
- Paige Browning
Clean fuels and clean water: What's in the infrastructure bill for Washington

The infrastructure bill will help Washington state electrify buses and other vehicles, fix hundreds of roads and bridges, and give salmon a better chance at survival.
- Paige Browning
The election, vaccines for kids, and apples, this week

Bill Radke discusses the week's news with SCC Insight's Kevin Schofield, Fox13's Brandi Kruse, and Crosscut's Mai Hoang
- Alec Cowan

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