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Ex-Washington police officer wanted in 2 killings and kidnapping shoots, kills self in Oregon, police say

April 23, 2024, 3:05pm Latest News

A former Washington state police officer wanted after killing two people, including his ex-wife, was found dead with a self-inflicted gunshot wound following a chase in Oregon, authorities said Tuesday. His 1-year-old baby, who was with him, was taken safely into custody by Oregon State Police troopers. Read story

FILE - Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Starbucks&rsquo; case against the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that protects the right of employees to organize. If the court sides with Starbucks, it could make it tougher for the NLRB to step in when it alleges corporate interference in unionization efforts.

Starbucks takes on the federal labor agency before the US Supreme Court

FILE - Starbucks employees and supporters link arms during a union election watch party, Dec. 9, 2021, in Buffalo, N.Y. On Tuesday, April 23, 2024, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear Starbucks&rsquo; case against the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency that protects the right of employees to organize. If the court sides with Starbucks, it could make it tougher for the NLRB to step in when it alleges corporate interference in unionization efforts.

April 23, 2024, 8:08am Business

After Starbucks fired seven workers who were trying to unionize their Tennessee store, a U.S. government agency obtained a court order forcing the company to rehire them. Now, Starbucks wants the Supreme Court to curb the government’s power in such cases. Read story

Nicole Slemp, a new mother of seven-month-old William, pushes her son in his stroller past KinderCare, which is near the family&rsquo;s home Thursday, March 14, 2024 in Auburn, Wash. Slemp recently quit her job because she and her husband couldn&rsquo;t find child care they could afford. Expensive, scarce child care is putting Puget Sound parents out of work. (Ellen M.

America’s child care crisis is holding back moms without college degrees

Nicole Slemp, a new mother of seven-month-old William, pushes her son in his stroller past KinderCare, which is near the family&rsquo;s home Thursday, March 14, 2024 in Auburn, Wash. Slemp recently quit her job because she and her husband couldn&rsquo;t find child care they could afford. Expensive, scarce child care is putting Puget Sound parents out of work. (Ellen M.

April 23, 2024, 7:46am Business

After a series of lower-paying jobs, Nicole Slemp finally landed one she loved. She was a secretary for Washington’s child services department, a job that came with her own cubicle, and she had a knack for working with families in difficult situations. Read story

Why crews couldn’t stop a fire from spreading inside a huge Tri-Cities vegetable freezer

April 23, 2024, 7:45am Northwest

A 12-acre cold storage warehouse continued to burn Monday south of Kennewick sending a bitter plume of smoke drifting for miles. Read story

Plethora of I-90 projects coming this summer

April 23, 2024, 7:29am Northwest

Travelers going over Snoqualmie Pass this summer should add pencil in a little extra time for delays due to road work, and not just at the Vantage Bridge. Most of the work is concentrated between North Bend and Ellensburg and will involve lane closures, sometimes all eastbound or westbound lanes… Read story

WA solar energy projects getting $156 million in federal funds

April 23, 2024, 7:29am Northwest

Washington state will receive more than $156 million to launch programs to provide rooftop solar and other forms of solar energy to people with lower incomes and on the front lines of climate change. Read story

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton makes a statement at his office, May 26, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday, April 22, 2024.

Seattle hospital won’t turn over gender-affirming care records in lawsuit settlement with Texas

FILE - Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton makes a statement at his office, May 26, 2023, in Austin, Texas. Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday, April 22, 2024.

April 23, 2024, 7:29am Health

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is dropping a request for a Seattle hospital to hand over records regarding gender-affirming treatment potentially given to children from Texas as part of a lawsuit settlement announced Monday. Read story

Students walk through a hallway at  First Place Scholars Charter School, Washington's first charter school, in Seattle. Washington’s charter school students are scoring similar or better than their traditional public school peers, according to a new report released by the State Board of Education.

Washington charter school performance on par with other public schools, state report says

Students walk through a hallway at  First Place Scholars Charter School, Washington's first charter school, in Seattle. Washington’s charter school students are scoring similar or better than their traditional public school peers, according to a new report released by the State Board of Education.

April 22, 2024, 7:44pm Northwest

Washington’s charter school students are scoring similar or better than their traditional public school peers, according to a new report released by the State Board of Education. Read story

New deal puts 2 of state’s largest wine producers back in Washington hands

April 22, 2024, 7:14pm Northwest

Columbia Winery and Hogue Cellars, two of the Mid-Columbia’s larger wineries, are putting their brief ownership by Gallo, the California wine giant, in the rearview mirror.. Read story

FILE - Bryan Kohberger, right, is escorted into a courtroom for a hearing in Latah County District Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger, the man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in late 2022, was out for a drive the night they were killed, his attorneys said in a new court filing Wednesday, April 17, 2024, that lays out more details of the alibi defense he intends to use at his trial. (AP Photo/Ted S.

Judge OKs phone surveys of jury pool for man charged in 4 University of Idaho student deaths

FILE - Bryan Kohberger, right, is escorted into a courtroom for a hearing in Latah County District Court, Sept. 13, 2023, in Moscow, Idaho. Kohberger, the man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students in late 2022, was out for a drive the night they were killed, his attorneys said in a new court filing Wednesday, April 17, 2024, that lays out more details of the alibi defense he intends to use at his trial. (AP Photo/Ted S.

April 22, 2024, 5:41pm Northwest

Defense attorneys for a man charged in the deaths of four University of Idaho students can resume phone surveys of potential jurors in the case, a judge has ruled. Read story