BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- Boeing kicks off airshow with $12 billion in deals in first day (Bloomberg/The Spokesman-Review)
- Seattle-area sandwich chain to close 10 stores, citing rising labor costs (MyNorthwest)
CORRECTIONS & JAILS
- State department transfer of 43 young men from juvenile to adult jails was unlawful, lawyers say (KING TV)
- Grant Co. Jail project moving quickly (Columbia Basin Herald)
COURTS (STATE)
CYBERSECURITY
DRUG CRISIS
- Kitsap gets share of $47.5 million from Kroger opioid settlement (Kitsap Sun)
- OPINION: Housing must come first when healing from addiction (Derrick Belgarde, executive director of Chief Seattle Club/The Seattle Times)
ELECTIONS
- Some folks in Pierce County haven’t received their voters’ pamphlets yet. Here’s why (The News Tribune)
- OPINION: Washington launches public-awareness campaign to curb misinformation about voting by mail (Washington Office of the Secretary of State/The Bellingham Herald)
ENERGY & UTILITIES
ENVIRONMENT
- U.S. and Canada update 60-year-old Columbia River Treaty (Cascade PBS)
- Intalco Aluminum agrees to $5.25 million penalty for hazardous pollution violations at Ferndale (The Bellingham Herald)
- Local projects underway to assist and restore aquatic habitat (KXRO Radio)
FISH
HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS
- Providence Everett launches early breast cancer detection program (The Everett Herald)
- EDITORIAL: Want cheaper prescriptions? Start bargaining (Bloomberg Opinion/Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
HOMELESSNESS
- Spokane City Council declines resolution supporting enforcing homeless camping law (The Center Square)
- Tiny home village operators seek land to build new units amid pushback over new site location (The Bellingham Herald)
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- ‘Defund is dead’: Seattle leaders say it’s time to hire more police (KUOW Radio)
- Interim Chief Sue Rahr talks progress, obstacles after 60 days leading Seattle Police Department (KING TV)
- SPD interim chief calls for hiring process changes as staffing woes continue (The Center Square)
- COLUMN: Hey, Seattle and King County — you need to talk (Danny Westneat/The Seattle Times)
MENTAL HEALTH
OTHER STATES
- Oregon has nearly as many fires burning as Washington, Idaho and California combined (The Oregonian)
- Woman exits Oregon prison 21 months late after state corrections agency ‘really screwed up’ (Oregon Public Broadcasting)
- Turning empty offices into apartments could help solve Portland’s housing crisis. Here’s why it’s not happening (The Columbian)
PARKS
SCHOOL SAFETY
SOCIAL MEDIA
STATE GOVERNMENT
- Washington AGO tasked with investigating $42 million tort claim filed against it (The Center Square)
- State agency will take over investigations into police use of deadly force investigations in Clark County (The Columbian)
- What is WA state’s Office of Independent Investigations, anyway? (KONA Radio)
TAXES
TRANSPORTATION
- WA ferry workers bear brunt of delayed, angry passengers (The Seattle Times)
- The world’s first fully hydrogen-powered ferry just launched. It was built in Bellingham (The Bellingham Herald)
- Focused on road deaths, King County may equip fleet with speed limiterstrans (The Seattle Times)
WATER
WILDFIRE PREVENTION & RESPONSE
- Washington’s wildfire season ramps up (Axios – Seattle)
- Unhealthy air in Tri-Cities, I-84 closes as wildfires burn in WA and OR (Tri-City Herald)
- Firefighters dealing with multiple wildfires in Yakima Valley; U.S. 12 closed in both directions (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Emergency evacuation center opens for Black Canyon Fire in Yakima County (KAPP/KVEW)
- Multiple large wildfires in the North Cascades put nearby residents on alert (KOMO TV)
- Wildfires burn nearly 10,000 acres on Colville Reservation (The Spokesman-Review)