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Farmworker wage complaints in WA caught in state agency backlog, report finds
Over half of farmworker wage complaints Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries received last year went un…
OR Lottery
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ These Oregon lotteries were drawn Thursday:
Winning numbers drawn in 'Powerball' game
ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the "Powerball" game were:
Cracked West Seattle Bridge shut until at least 2022
SEATTLE (AP) — The West Seattle Bridge will remain closed to traffic until 2022 to brace and then repair the cracking concrete main span, city of Seattle officials now predict.
Winning numbers drawn in 'Lotto' game
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Lotto" game were:
Winning numbers drawn in 'Pick 3 Night' game
BOISE, Idaho (AP) _ The winning numbers in Friday evening's drawing of the Idaho Lottery's "Pick 3 Night" game were:
Winning numbers drawn in 'Hit 5' game
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Wednesday evening's drawing of the Washington Lottery's "Hit 5" game were:
Claims for unemployment benefits remain at record levels
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — More than 585,000 people in Washington sought unemployment benefits last week, with 143,000 people filing claims for the first time as businesses remain closed or with limited operations due t…
Boeing to restart airplane production in Seattle
SEATTLE (AP) — Boeing said Thursday it will restart production of its commercial airplanes next week in the Seattle area, putting about 27,000 people back to work after operations were suspended because of the COVI…
Pentagon: $10B cloud contract that snubbed Amazon was legal
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon's process for awarding a highly lucrative cloud computing contract to Microsoft instead of Amazon was in line with legal and government purchasing standards, a government watchdog age…
Winning numbers drawn in 'Pick 4 4PM' game
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) _ The winning numbers in Thursday afternoon's drawing of the Oregon Lottery's "Pick 4 4PM" game were:
WA Lottery
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) _ These Washington lotteries were drawn Thursday:
Justices: $18M campaign finance penalty to be reconsidered
SEATTLE (AP) — The Washington Supreme Court has ordered a lower court to reconsider the largest penalty for campaign finance violations ever assessed in the state.
Reopening could require thousands more public health workers
SEATTLE (AP) — Before stay-at-home orders are lifted, the nation's public health agencies want to be ready to douse any new sparks of coronavirus infection — a task they say could require tens of thousands more inv…
Inslee: Phased approach for reopening economy due to virus
OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday that social distancing efforts in the state have been successful in “flattening the curve” of the coronavirus outbreak and that if the trend continues…
Study: Warming makes US West megadrought worst in modern age
KENSINGTON, Maryland (AP) — A two-decade-long dry spell that has parched much of the western United States is turning into one of the deepest megadroughts in the region in more than 1,200 years, a new study found.