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Details: Written by GENE JOHNSON Associated Press; Published: 30 March 2023

Seattle, Washington

The measure expands pandemic-era protections and strengthens labor rights for app-based workers.

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Details: Written by GENE JOHNSON Associated Press; Published: 30 March 2023

(Photo/ Seattle Audubon Society via Facebook)

James Audubon, a naturalist known for his watercolor paintings of birds, also owned, sold and bought enslaved African Americans through his general store in Kentucky and was a staunch opponent of abolition.

Details: Written by GEOFF MULVIHILL and JOHN HANNA Associated Press; Published: 30 March 2023

A sign reading "My body, my choice," is taped to a hanger taped to a streetlight in front of the Idaho state Capitol Building in Boise, Idaho, May 3, 2022. (Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP, File)

The measure would create a new crime of “abortion trafficking,” punishable by up to five years in prison, barring adults from obtaining abortion pills and “recruiting, harboring, or transporting" a pregnant minor.

Oregon BIPOC Caucus

Details: Written by The Skanner News; Published: 29 March 2023

In a historic milestone for the state, this is the most diverse Legislature in Oregon history, with 20 BIPOC legislators serving this session.

Details: Written by Saundra Sorenson; Published: 29 March 2023

Kim McCarty

Vulnerable households, seniors find themselves priced out of even rural areas.

Details: Written by By DEE-ANN DURBIN AP Business Writer; Published: 29 March 2023

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Longtime Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz insisted his company hasn't broken labor laws and is willing to bargain with unionized workers

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 29 March 2023

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Detectives continue to ask that anyone with information contact them

Details: Written by Andrea Brown, Everett Herald; Published: 27 March 2023

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Messages on display on Totem Family Diner and Pacific Stone Co. retro signs in Everett, Wash. reveal “secret crushes.”

Details: Written by LISA BAUMANN Associated Press; Published: 23 March 2023

(Sarah A. Miller/Idaho Statesman via AP,File)

A rural hospital in northern Idaho will stop delivering babies or providing other obstetrical care, citing a shifting legal climate in which recently enacted state laws could subject physicians to prosecution for providing abortions, among other reasons

Details: Written by Associated Press; Published: 23 March 2023

(Photo/ Maxime Bouffard)

It's been three decades since state agencies first noted high levels of nitrate contamination in the groundwater in Morrow and Umatilla counties and residents have long complained that the pollution is negatively impacting their health.