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Amazon Prime Air/Amazon made news this month by announcing it will start package deliveries by aerial drone to real customers in a northern California town. In the run up to the U.S. debut, the company conducted extensive flight tests in Eastern Oregon, where it experienced a spate of crashes. Amazon said Monday the upcoming rollout of commercial drone delivery signifies the refined technology is safe and no longer experimental. -
Grant County Sheriff's Office/People in about three dozen homes near a wildfire in central Washington have been told by law enforcement to leave their homes immediately. The Grant County Sheriff's Office said at about 2:45 p.m. Tuesday that people living on certain streets east of Soap Lake should leave their homes because of a wildfire.
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Police say eight people were wounded in a shooting after a music event and five people were shot, one fatally, in separate incidents around Tacoma.
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AP/U.S. Fish and Wildlife ServiceWildlife advocates say there's been a distressing uptick in wolf poaching cases in the Northwest in the past year and a half. Four dead wolves were discovered in the northeastern corner of Washington state in February. That followed the poisoning of eight wolves in eastern Oregon in 2021, along with the poaching of a total of eight wolves in Idaho last year.
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Washington already has protections in place for people seeking abortions. But more protections could be coming following the Supreme Court ruling that overturned Roe v. Wade. -
A regional arm of Planned Parenthood is suing the state of Idaho to block a law banning most abortions that would take effect later this summer.
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Sunday's Seattle Pride event was a joyous day for the region’s large LGBTQ community. But, coming on the heels of the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe versus Wade, there were also sounds of protest. Other issues at the forefront of the parade included the need for more housing, policing and protecting the transgender community.
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There’s a push for the cities awarded games for the 2026 World Cup to commit to livable wages, and equitable hiring and worker protection. Many of those rights have cast a cloud on the upcoming World Cup in Qatar.
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The Seattle Mariners and the Los Angeles Angels engaged in a lengthy full-team brawl in the second inning after tensions over two days of inside pitches boiled over. Both managers and six players were ejected after the brouhaha.
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The Supreme Court has sided with a football coach from Bremerton, Wash. who sought to kneel and pray on the field after games. Monday's ruling could strengthen the acceptability of some religious practices in other public school settings.
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Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says he will push for a state constitutional amendment to protect abortion rights within his state's borders, as well as laws that will make it difficult for other states to investigate whether their own residents have visited Washington for abortion care.
