AGRICULTURE
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- Longshoremen at key US ports threatening to strike over automation and pay (AP)
- Biden administration allows WA’s Alaska Airlines merger with Hawaiian Air (FOX 13)
- Union rallies against grocery merger as Washington’s trial to stop it begins (KOMO TV)
- Boeing workers having trouble making ends meet as strike hits third day (KUOW Radio)
- Amazon’s return-to-office mandate could boost downtown Seattle’s recovery (The Center Square)
- Yelp names Pike Place Market 12th most popular U.S. business (Axios – Seattle)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
CONGRESS
CORRECTIONS & JAILS
- Department of Corrections to shutter its execution chamber in Walla Walla (KING TV)
- Man serving life sentence for 1991 murder in Pierce County to be set free. Here’s why (The News Tribune)
- COLUMN: Democrats released so many inmates that Washington has a shortage of license plates (Jason Rantz/MyNorthwest)
COURTS (STATE)
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
- WSP increasing patrols on I-5 after string of armed carjackings in Federal Way area (KING TV)
- Missing information, court grants pretrial release to Wapato man accused of killing girlfriend hours later (KAPP/KVEW)
- Renton Civic Theatre recasts leadership following revelations of child sex abuse convictions (KUOW Radio)
EDUCATION
- Washington ranks No. 4 in public education study (FOX 13)
- Seattle Public Schools’ closure plans’ impact on dual language programs (KOMO TV)
- Seattle Schools forces parents to pay ‘junk fees’ to access school lunch (KUOW Radio)
- One Tri-Cities school district is far outpacing the others in COVID enrollment recovery (Tri-City Herald)
ELECTIONS
ENERGY & UTILITIES
ENVIRONMENT
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT & THE WHITE HOUSE
FISH
HIGHER EDUCATION
- Can UW students expect a smooth start to semester amid potential campus tensions? (KOMO TV)
- Campus tensions linger after pro-Palestinian org disrupts UW Board of Regents meeting (The Center Square)
HOMELESSNESS
- Spokane City Council stalls fifth measure related to homelessness since mid-July (The Center Square)
- Questions raised around legality of Spokane mayor’s plan to save homeless shelter (The Center Square)
- Vancouver City Council considers problems at homeless camp at Mill Plain sound wall but takes no action (The Columbian)
- What is the city doing about homeless encampments? Mayor Lund just provided an update (The Bellingham Herald)
- Auburn enforces stricter rules on public camping (KIRO TV)
HOUSING
- WA renters pay more for housing than renters in all but four states, Census Bureau says (The Bellingham Herald)
- Seattle saw the nation’s 3rd-largest spike in home prices in August (FOX 13)
- More than 500 units of affordable housing planned in Tacoma. Here’s when they might open (The News Tribune)
- Chelan, Douglas counties will need another 17,000+ homes by 2044 (KPQ Radio)
IMMIGRATION
INVASIVE SPECIES
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Seattle enacts controversial drug, prostitution “stay out” zones (Cascade PBS)
- Ann Davison on SOAP laws curbing Seattle sex trafficking: ‘The goal is disruption’ (MyNorthwest)
- Vancouver City Council OKs $900K loan, tax breaks for developer to remodel building for mixed-income housing (The Columbian)
- North Bend’s $26 million funding gap has city looking at development (Snoqualmie Valley Record)
OTHER STATES
- Oregon wildfires are shattering records this year (The Oregonian)
- Deadline nears for Oregon schools to use or lose millions in federal pandemic aid (The Oregonian)
- Virginia adopts statewide ‘bell-to-bell’ cell phone ban in public schools (FOX 13)
PARKS
SPORTS
STATE GOVERNMENT
- Demand for WA paid family leave benefits is overwhelming staff, agency says (Washington State Standard)
- Sisters recount physical, sexual abuse in WA foster home (FOX 13)
- Washington receives $300,000 for landslide research and prevention (KIRO TV)
TAXES
TRANSPORTATION
WILDLIFE
- Orca baby born to L pod (The Seattle Times)
- Saturday fundraiser in Zillah to benefit Yakama Nation’s bison herd (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Idaho mule deer found with rare plague by WSU experts (KHQ TV)
WOLVES