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Budget deal secures pay hike for state troopers
OLYMPIA — A big pay hike from lawmakers and a large graduating class of cadets is boosting Washington…
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Inslee names new Department of Corrections secretary
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee is again turning to a veteran manager in the Department of Corrections to…
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Lawmakers’ special session to-do list is more than McCleary
OLYMPIA — Lawmakers begin a special session Monday with a to-do list of greater length than one might…
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Without budget deal, lawmakers prepare for special session
OLYMPIA — Lawmakers are bound for a special session as House Democrats and Senate Republicans struggle to end…
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Inslee calls for special legislative session on Monday
OLYMPIA — State lawmakers are set to begin a special session Monday, the first of what could be…
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There’s plenty of blame to go around for special session
OLYMPIA — The countdown to special session is under way.
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Who gets bill for state agency sex-discrimination lawsuit?
OLYMPIA — Deciding who should pay a state agency’s $6.1 million settlement of a sex discrimination case has…
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Power tussle divides state school agencies, lawmakers
OLYMPIA — As two of the state’s venerable forces in public education engage in a quiet tussle for…
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Proposed budgets include millions for Snohomish County projects
OLYMPIA — A waterfront center in Edmonds. A pocket park in downtown Arlington. A new Science, Engineering and…
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Transportation budget includes funds for several county projects
OLYMPIA — Negotiations on a new state transportation budget could bring an infusion of money into Snohomish County…
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Immigration agency puts detainer ‘shame’ reports on hold
EVERETT — The Trump administration has stopped producing a weekly scorecard of law enforcement agencies it says are…
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Lawmakers struggle to solve the puzzle of public education
OLYMPIA — As eight lawmakers arrived at a conference room early Wednesday for another round of negotiations on…
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State House OKs bill for car tab credits
OLYMPIA — A bill to lessen the financial blow of a voter-approved increase in Sound Transit car tab…
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Bill advances to force Sound Transit to alter license tax
OLYMPIA — A Democrat-drafted response to soaring Sound Transit car tabs passed out of a House committee Monday…
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Edmonds lawmaker faces campaign finance complaint
OLYMPIA — Democratic state Rep. Strom Peterson, of Edmonds, broke state election laws by not properly reporting contributions…
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Partisan split on easing fury of Sound Transit car tab hikes
OLYMPIA — Democratic and Republican lawmakers are pushing drastically different responses to ease consumers’ fury at the surging…
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Bill to add ballot drop boxes a step away from becoming law
OLYMPIA — Voters in the state’s most-populous cities and smallest towns shouldn’t have to look as hard in…
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State Senate candidate Ken Smith doesn’t fit the GOP’s mold
OLYMPIA — As an elected board member in the Northshore School District, Ken Smith served the public and…
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GOP lawmaker calls Democrats’ tax plan ‘beyond belief’
OLYMPIA — Democrats pushed their $3 billion tax package through a House committee Tuesday and declared themselves ready…
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Survey: Local youth heroin use down; alcohol, pot unchanged
EVERETT — A new survey has found interest in heroin among Snohomish County teenagers declined in 2016.