AGRICULTURE & WATER
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- US consumer confidence holds steady even as high prices weigh on household budgets (AP)
- Here’s the minimum annual income required to be middle class in Washington (FOX 13)
- Instacart settles over Seattle’s gig worker sick pay law (MyNorthwest)
- Bornstein Seafoods to close Bellingham facility, consolidate in Astoria, OR (KGMI Radio/My Bellingham Now)
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
COURTS (FEDERAL)
- Supreme Court seems likely to preserve access to the abortion medication mifepristone (AP)
- What the Supreme Court abortion pill case could mean for WA (The Seattle Times)
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
- Washington sees human smuggling spike, feds say (Axios – Seattle)
- Tacoma business owners can get money to fix windows or receive upgrades. Here’s how (The News Tribune)
DRUG CRISIS
EDUCATION
- Yakima school board approves plan to lay off more than 100 staff (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Soap Lake School Board asks for superintendent’s resignation (Columbia Basin Herald)
- COLUMN: ‘Racist’ Spokane elementary school’s ‘slaves and hobos’ ignites controversy (Jason Rantz/MyNorthwest)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
ENERGY & UTILITIES
ENVIRONMENT
FISH
GUN RIGHTS
- Inslee signs new gun laws, including ban at transit facilities, libraries (The Seattle Times)
- New bill makes it illegal for Washingtonians to carry firearms in these locations (KING TV)
- Firearm theft reporting now mandatory in Washington (Columbia Basin Herald)
HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS
HOMELESSNESS
HOUSING
- State spending to rise tenfold on housing for people with developmental disabilities (Washington State Standard)
- Massive real estate settlement promises to shake up housing market. But will it affect WA? (The Bellingham Herald)
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Lynnwood man pleads not guilty in crash that killed Marysville trooper (The Everett Herald)
- Bellevue officer hurt in VP motorcade regains health care benefits (The Seattle Times)
LEGISLATURE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
- Southwest Washington cities OK interlocal agreement to form opioid abatement council (The Columbian)
- Vancouver works to remove forever chemicals from water supply (The Columbian)
- Callers bombard Lacey Equity Commission with hate speech during Monday meeting (The Olympian)
- Special workshop called to examine ‘obviously’ flawed Benton County animal control system (Tri-City Herald)
MEDIA
MENTAL HEALTH
MILITARY & VETERANS
OTHER STATES
REDISTRICTING
SCHOOL SAFETY
- They asked court to curtail admissions at ‘dangerous’ Rainier School. Here’s the outcome (The News Tribune)
- Shelton High head football coach out of job after tackling drill injures several students (KIRO TV)
- 9-year-old on bicycle pulled under rear axle of school bus in Vancouver (The Columbian)
- EDITORIAL: Industrial pollution has no place in school zone (The Columbian)
SPORTS
- Mariners owner John Stanton talks future of ROOT Sports, winning more than 54% of games (KOMO TV)
- Hiring Pat Chun is a home run for UW and a gut punch for WSU (The Seattle Times)
TRANSPORTATION
- More than 210 bridges in Washington are in ‘poor condition,’ WSDOT data shows (KOMO TV)
- ‘Living on borrowed time’: Washington, US bridges need repair, replacement (MyNorthwest)
- Washington state is no stranger to bridge disasters (The Seattle Times)
- How are transportation officials working to prevent vessel emergencies in Washington? (KING TV)
- Baltimore bridge collapse: WSDOT reflects on parallels with 2013 Skagit River Bridge drop (FOX 13)
- New Washington law will allow traffic cameras on more city streets and county roads (Washington State Standard)
- EDITORIAL: Public roads should not be closed to raise lobbying money for special interests (The Seattle Times)
WILDLIFE
