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Pendleton OKs marijuana rules for businesses
PENDLETON, Ore. (AP) - The Pendleton City Council has approved rules that pave the way for marijuana businesses to eventually open in town.
Residents last month voted to lift the city's ban on medical and recreational sales.
Two issues drew a lot of attention before Tuesday's vote: city licensing fees and background checks on employees...
Data breach at Community Health Plan of Washington
SEATTLE (AP) - Almost 400,000 current and former members of the Community Health Plan of Washington have had personal information exposed in a data breach.
The nonprofit is sending letters to 381,534 individuals on Wednesday notifying them of the breach...
Washington accrues almost $7.5 million in contempt fines
SEATTLE (AP) - The state of Washington has accrued fines of about $7.5 million for failing to provide competency services to mentally ill people who must wait in jails for weeks or months.
The federal judge who imposed the fines issued an order on Tuesday saying the state must pay the outstanding balance of $2...
Kennewick Police: Driver hits power pole, which lands on SUV and then takes off
One car ran into a power pole in Kennewick Tuesday night and then took off, leaving another car hit by the pole and its occupants stranded.
Kennewick police say the power pole landed on a second car and the other car took off before police could get there. But offi...
Deputies: Man leads police on high-speed chase, crashes into fence
A man is behind bars after leading Grant County deputies on a high-speed chase through Moses Lake during rush hour traffic.
Deputies say 38-year-old Paul Gorden was wanted for felony and misdemeanor warrants and when deputies attempted to arrested him at a home in the Larson Housing Area, he took off in an SUV...
Deputies: Soap Lake burglar caught in the act
A burglar was caught in the act Tuesday morning south of Soap Lake.
Grant County Sheriff's Deputies say they were called to the 17000 block of Road B.5-Northeast for trespassing. A deputy arrived to find a pickup truck backed up to the shop door...
Dogs rescued from Walla Walla home damaged by fire
Firefighters rescued two dogs from a home in Walla Walla which was heavily damaged due to a fire.
Firefighters were called to the home at 2237 Crosshaven Drive in Walla Walla Tuesday afternoon after the next door neighbor noticed the flames...
Police: Man suffering mental health crisis punches Kennewick officer
Officers say a man who threatened to hurt those at a medical clinic and later punched a Kennewick police officer in the face, may have had a mental health crisis.
Kennewick police officers say around 10:00 a.m. Tuesday Luke Romine entered the Total Care Clinic with a knife and started threatening those inside...
Judge: Seattle kids can move ahead with climate rights case
SEATTLE (AP) - A judge says eight Seattle children should have "their day in court" to argue that Washington state and others are violating their constitutional rights to a healthy environment by failing to protect them from climate change.
King County Superior Court Judge Hollis Hill on Monday wrote that there's a need for coordinated science-based action by the state to "address c
The REACH Museum offers (educational) winter break family fun
Students in the Tri-Cities get two weeks of vacation from school, which sounds like a great idea. Until they get bored.
"Sometimes those days after Christmas before break is over, sometimes families are looking for something to do and get out of the house...