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

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… Read story

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

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,… 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

Missing child alert issued after Richland murders. Victims ID’d as ex-wife, girlfriend of former police officer

April 23, 2024, 7:45am Latest News

An Amber Alert has been issued for the ex-police officer facing a rape charge suspected in two West Richland killings on Monday. 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