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In a visceral response to data showing increased speeding, drunk driving and traffic deaths, Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday that speed-enforcement cameras should be added to I-5 and other Washington state highways, where they aren’t legal now.

 

New funding from NOAA will invest $74.4 million across 14 projects in Washington state to enhance natural protections, create jobs, and support healthy environments.

 

It's a fourth grade class's dream come true.

 

Several new laws go into effect in Washington state on Saturday, July 1, 2023, and later in the month. From a change to drug possession laws to an anti-hazing law and the designation of the first state dinosaur, here are some of the notable laws going into effect.

 

Washington state will get more than $1.2 billion from the federal government to deliver high-speed internet to communities with slow, unreliable or nonexistent service, the Biden administration announced Monday.

 

The Wellington avalanche, in Washington sate, was the deadliest avalanche in the history of the United States, marked by the total death count of 96.

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Spokane's Garbage-Eating Goat (www.atlasobscura.com)
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A copper and brass goat created by the "welding nun" has been chewing up litter for more than 40 years.

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Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine was a Coke-themed vending machine in Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington, United States that was in operation from at least the early 1990s until its disappearance in 2018. It is unknown who stocked the machine.

 

Starting Saturday, Washington state's new long-term care tax will be funded, using about 58 cents from every $100 of a paycheck.

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Main Street, Olympia WA in 1876 (www.washingtonhistory.org)
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Photograph of a wide dirt street identified as Main Street (now Capitol Way), Olympia, W.T., Thurston County. Along the visible right side of the street are a series of two-story wooden building, apparently mostly residences. A wooden sidewalk extends along the front of them. A man is sitting in a buggy in front of one of the houses. In the middle distance is a building with the word hardware on a sign. In the far distance are two flagpoles.

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