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Many public school employees are exempt from getting vaccine

Districts gave exemptions to hundreds with sincerely held religious beliefs ahead of last month’s deadline.

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King County judge upholds Port of Seattle’s vaccine mandate

Judge Samuel Chung has upheld a mandate for all Port of Seattle employees to be vaccinated by Nov.…

Washington Sen. Doug Ericksen, R-Ferndale, talks to reporters, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2017, at the Capitol in Olympia, Wash. Ericksen, who is currently serving as both a state senator and a member of President Donald Trump's transition team, said that the Republican majority in the state Senate can rely on him, and that he's able to do both jobs. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Northwest

State lawmaker ill with COVID-19 in El Salvador

Doug Ericksen, a Republican who represents the 42nd District in Whatcom County, is sickened with COVID-19.

Staff shortages have hit the Department of Transportation, which means roads might not be plowed or maintained as quickly as motorists have come to expect. (Washington State Department of Transportation)

Northwest

Staffing shortages at DOT could mean closed roads this winter

Snow clearing could be delayed as the state is down about 300 workers. Also, SR 20 closes Wednesday.

Aerial view of the Amtrak Cascades train derailment in 2017 near DuPont, Wash. (National Transportation Safety Board via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:2017_Cascades_derailment_aerial_view_from_NTSB_preliminary_report.jpg" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a>)

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Amtrak to resume service on bypass 4 years after derailment

Eight trains will use the Point Defiance bypass between Tacoma and Olympia daily starting Nov. 18.

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Sen. Steve Hobbs of Lake Stevens named secretary of state

Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday appointed the Snohomish County Democrat to succeed departing Republican Kim Wyman.

Northwest

Grand jury indicts 2 arrested in Edmonds for smuggling ivory

They are accused of shipping ivory from endangered elephants and rhinoceros horns to the U.S.

FILE - A northern spotted owl, named Obsidian by U.S. Forest Service employees, sits in a tree in the Deschutes National Forest near Camp Sherman, Ore., in this May 8, 2003 file photo. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service reversed a decision, made five days before President Donald Trump left office, to drastically shrink so-called critical habitat for the spotted owl. U.S. wildlife officials said Tuesday Nov. 9, 2021, they have struck down the rule that would have opened millions of acres of forest in Oregon, Washington and California to potential logging. (AP Photo/Don Ryan, File)

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Trump used ‘faulty’ science to strip owl habitat protections

The rule would have opened millions of acres in Oregon, Washington and California to potential logging.

Gov. Jay Inslee joined other governors Monday at the Climate Registry & Climate Action Reserve press conference in Glasgow, Scotland, to talk about climate achievements and goals. From left, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown, Hawaii Gov. David Ige, Gov. Jay Inslee and Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker. (Photo courtesy of Gov. Jay Inslee)

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Inslee: State agency vehicles must be all-electric by 2035

The governor, who is in Scotland for an international climate conference, set an aggressive timeline.

People walk adjacent to the border with Canada at the Peace Arch in Peace Arch Historical State Park, where cars behind wait to enter Canada at the border crossing Monday, Aug. 9, 2021, in Blaine, Wash. Canada lifted its prohibition on Americans crossing the border to shop, vacation or visit, but America kept similar restrictions in place, part of a bumpy return to normalcy from coronavirus travel bans. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

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U.S. reopens Canada border after 597 days of COVID closure

Ports are once again allowing crossings for tourism, shopping or visiting family and friends.

Traffic drives in view of a massive Boeing Co. production plant, where images of jets decorate the hangar doors, Friday, April 23, 2021, in Everett, Wash. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson)

Northwest

Insurers for several current and former Boeing board members will pay millions to settle the lawsuit.

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Workers are shown in the kitchen of The GEO Group’s immigration detention center in Tacoma during a media tour, Sept. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)

Northwest

Company halts work program instead of upping detainee pay

Rather than pay detainees minimum wage, a Tacoma immigration detention center suspended the program.

FILE - Josephine County Sheriff Dave Daniel stands amid the debris of plastic hoop houses destroyed by law enforcement, used to grow cannabis illegally, near Selma, Ore., on June 16, 2021. Over 100 workers, most or all of them immigrants, were found at the site. Thousands of immigrants have been working on illegal marijuana farms purportedly run by foreign cartels in southern Oregon, living in squalid conditions and sometimes being cheated by their employers. (Shaun Hall/Grants Pass Daily Courier via AP, File)

Northwest

Migrant Oregon weed workers face threats amid illegal boom

The workers say they are living in squalid conditions and are being cheated by their bosses.

Northwest

Body donated for science dissected at Oregon ‘Oddities’ expo

A similar event scheduled for Halloween in Seattle was canceled after a report by KING-TV.

Bruce Harrell, who ran against Lorena Gonzalez in the race for mayor of Seattle, poses for a photo Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, at his election night gathering in Seattle. Seattle City Council President Lorena González has conceded the mayor’s race, after an updated vote tally on Thursday, Nov. 4, 2021 showed former Council President Bruce Harrell with an insurmountable lead. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Northwest

Harrell wins Seattle mayor’s race; Lorena González concedes

He will be the city’s first Asian American and second Black mayor.

Northwest

City of Seattle staffing strained due to vaccine mandate

Seattle’s vaccine mandate has exacerbated staffing shortages in major departments.

FILE - The decommissioned plutonium-producing DR reactor, left, and D reactor, right, are shown on the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, June 13, 2017, near Richland, Wash. The federal government is moving forward with the cost-saving "cocooning" of eight plutonium production reactors at Hanford that will place them in a state of long-term storage for decades to allow radiation inside to dissipate until they can be dismantled and buried. (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios, File)

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US government works to ‘cocoon’ old Hanford nuclear reactors

They’ll be placed in long-term storage to allow radiation inside to dissipate over a period of decades.

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Another Oregon county looks to join Idaho

Voters in Harney County approved a measure to begin official meetings about moving into the Gem State.

Bruce Harrell, who is running against Lorena Gonzalez in the race for Mayor of Seattle, campaigns Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, on Election Day at a grocery store in South Seattle. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

Northwest

Defund the police candidates stumble in liberal Seattle

Moderate candidates took commanding leads in the races for mayor, city attorney and a key council race.

The United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service will be accepting applications for more than 1,000 seasonal and summer jobs in Washington and Oregon this November. (U.S. Forest Service)

Northwest

Forest Service looks to fill 1,000 jobs in November

Positions include fire, recreation, timber, natural resources, engineering, visitor services and archaeology.