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After Speaking Out, Washington Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler Heads Toward Clash With Her Own Party

By NWPB News February 14, 2021

U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler on Election Night in Vancouver, Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2018.

Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler thrust herself into the national spotlight on Friday when the Washington Republican came out with a stunning account of Donald Trump's actions on the day of the Capitol insurrection. In a statement put out on the eve of the vote in Trump's Senate impeachment trial, Herrera Beutler said that House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy told her that in a Read More

Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power As Snow And Ice Storms Blanket The Northwest

By NWPB News February 14, 2021

Skip Cundiff plays good neighbor as he clears sidewalks around a housing area in Walla Walla, Wash., Saturday, Feb. 13, 2021. CREDIT: Greg Lehman/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin via AP

A winter storm blanketed the Pacific Northwest with ice and snow Saturday, leaving hundreds of thousands of people without power and disrupting travel across the region. Continue Reading Hundreds Of Thousands Without Power As Read More

State Auditor: Data Breach Compromised Info Of 1.6 Million Washingtonians Seeking Unemployment

By NWPB News February 1, 2021

Commissioner Suzi LeVine addressed unemployment claim processing delays during a media teleconference Thursday. CREDIT: WA ESD via Zoom

A data breach may have exposed the personal information of 1.6 million residents who filed for unemployment last year, as well as other information from state agencies and local governments, Washington state Auditor Pat McCarthy said Monday. Read More

Playing Favorites? Hospital Boards And Donors, Some In Washington, Get Vaccine Priority Offer

By NWPB News February 1, 2021

People wait in line for the COVID-19 vaccine in Paterson, N.J., Thursday, Jan. 21, 2021. Some hospitals around the U.S. are facing complaints about favoritism and line-jumping after their board members and donors received COVID-19 vaccinations or offers for inoculations. CREDIT: Seth Wenig/AP

While millions of Americans wait for the COVID-19 vaccine, hospital board members, their trustees and donors around the country have gotten early access to the scarce drug or offers for vaccinations, raising complaints about favoritism tainting decisions about who gets inoculated and when. Read More

As More States Legalize Pot, Idaho Lawmakers Move To Cement A Permanent Constitutional Ban

By NWPB News January 29, 2021

In this March 28, 2019 photo pot products line a display case at a marijuana shop in Seattle. A proposed constitutional amendment that would prevent the legalization of marijuana in Idaho has moved forward as lawmakers in the state try to halt the increasing acceptance of the drug nationwide. CREDIT: Elaine Thompson/AP

As legal weed becomes a reality in every corner of the U.S., Idaho is putting up a fight. State lawmakers on Friday moved forward with a proposed constitutional amendment that would bar the legalization of marijuana in Idaho in an attempt to keep the growing nationwide acceptance of the drug from seeping across its borders. Read More

Washington Legislators Unveil $2.2 Billion COVID-19 Financial Relief Package

By NWPB News January 22, 2021

Sign on restaurant door in Spokane saying when it will reopen from covid closure with multiple dates crossed out and finally saying "who knows"

The plan includes $618 million to boost vaccination efforts and contact tracing. It also includes $668 million for school assistance, $365 million to aid renters and landlords and $240 million for grants to businesses. Continue Read More

Lawmakers Ask President Biden To Act On Washington Wildfire Relief After Trump Refused

By Doug Nadvornick January 22, 2021

Hollie Jordan surveys her father's service station that was destroyed by a wildfire on Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020, in Malden, Wash. "This was filled with work and life and memories and it's all gone," Jordan said. CREDIT: Jed Conklin/AP

Washington’s U.S. senators say they’ve asked President Joe Biden to approve a major disaster declaration for eastern Washington towns that were burned by wildfires last fall. Those include the Whitman County town of Malden, which lost about 80% of its homes. Read More

What’s Next For Dan Newhouse And Jaime Herrera Beutler After They Voted To Impeach Trump?

By NWPB News January 21, 2021

Final vote tally from CSPAN to impeach president Trump

Observers say the votes to impeach from U.S. Reps. Jaime Herrera Beutler and Dan Newhouse signal a ‘civil war’ playing out within the GOP nationwide. Continue Reading What’s Next For Dan Newhouse And Jaime Herrera Read More

10 Years After White Supremacist Tried To Bomb Spokane’s MLK Parade, Extremism Is More Mainstream

By Scott Leadingham January 17, 2021

The backpack bomb made by Kevin Harpham, of Stevens County, Washington, was discovered on the parade route of Spokane's 2011 Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade, before it could be detonated. CREDIT: FBI

This week marks 10 years since a white supremacist attempted to bomb the Martin Luther King Junior Day parade through downtown Spokane. The bomb was discovered and defused just in the nick of time. But the effects of extremist ideologies in the region lived on. Journalist Leah Sottile examined that in the podcast Bundyville, from Oregon Public Broadcasting. Leah spoke with Read More

Mile-Long Line Of Cars As Drive-Thru Clinic Opens For Seniors In Sequim

By Tom Banse January 15, 2021

Eager seniors filled up all of the first come, first serve slots at a drive-thru COVID vaccination clinic before the first shots were even given on Thursday in Sequim, Washington. CREDIT: Tom Banse/N3

At sunrise Thursday, a line of cars stretched well over a mile from a Sequim city park, through the town, and out onto U.S. Highway 101. Sequim police officers started turning people away and telling them to come back another day even before the first of 600 vaccine doses was injected. Read More

Washington Agriculture Industry Wants Farmworkers Prioritized For COVID-19 Vaccine

By NWPB News January 15, 2021

Farmworkers in Yakima’s fruit-packing industry walked off production lines in May and went on strike, demanding more protections against the coronavirus pandemic. Above, Emmanuel Anguiano-Mendoza (left) and Agustin López hold posters featuring David Cruz, a worker who died on May 30. CREDIT: Enrique Pérez de la Rosa/NWPB

The agriculture industry is asking Washington state Gov. Jay Inslee to move migrant farmworkers and food factory workers closer to the front of the line for the coronavirus vaccine because they perform work that cannot be delayed or performed remotely. Read More

Trump Supporters Break Fence At Washington Governor’s Residence, Demand Inslee Be Arrested

By NWPB News January 6, 2021

Protesters stand outside the Washington Governor's Mansion after getting through a perimeter fence, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, at the Capitol in Olympia following a protest against the counting of electoral votes in Washington, DC, affirming President-elect Joe Biden's victory. The area was eventually cleared by police. CREDIT: Ted S. Warren/AP

Pro-Trump protesters broke through a gate at the Washington state governor’s mansion Wednesday afternoon and dozens of people gathered on the lawn. The crowd, some of whom were armed, touted repeated unfounded allegations of election fraud and it came the same day pro-Trump protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Read More

McMorris Rodgers Reverses Course, More Reactions From Northwest Lawmakers On Capitol Violence

By NWPB News January 6, 2021

Protesters gesture to U.S. Capitol Police in the hallway outside of the Senate chamber inside the Capitol on Wednesday. Manuel Balce Ceneta/AP

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Washington) later released a statement: "What we have seen today is unlawful and unacceptable. I have decided I will vote to uphold the Electoral College results and I encourage Donald Trump to condemn and put an end to this madness.” Read More

Washington Governor Unveils New Business Reopening Plan, Moving To More Regional Approach

By NWPB News January 5, 2021

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee announced on Tuesday, Jan. 5, 2021 a new regional approach to economic reopening, getting away from the previous four-phase county-by-county approach from 2020. CREDIT: TVW

On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee announced a phased reopening plan for restaurants and gyms, that is not set entirely by a county-by-county approach, as before. In Phase 2, restaurants and gyms can resume indoor dining/activities at 25% capacity. But in order to qualify to move there, four metrics will have to be trending downward including a 10% reduction in COVID case rates, Read More

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