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Washington state health officials announced a possible coronavirus outbreak in a nursing facility in Kirkland. The officials stated that 52 people in the facility are displaying some coronavirus symptoms and two tested “presumptive positive” for COVID-19.

Health officials in Washington State announced the first coronavirus-related death in the United States on Saturday morning.

Democrat lawmakers in Washington State will consider an “assault weapons” ban this week, as well as an end to ammunition magazines holding 11 rounds or more.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) is pushing a ban on “assault weapons” and “high capacity” magazines as state lawmakers convene this week in legislative session.

Washington State is debating a bill that would restrict school sports athletes to participating only in the gender category of their birth.

A Washington State University student died in a fraternity-related incident, marking the second fraternity death in the past week and the fourth campus death in a month.

Teachers’ unions are continuing to see a decline in membership and revenue since the Supreme Court’s decision in Janus v. AFSCME in June 2018.

A school bus driver in Washington state is accused of driving under the influence after a child called 911 to report her.

A recently passed law in the state of Washington will effectively end a campus firearm storage program at Washington State University.

A KR2 single propeller airplane was forced to make an emergency landing on a busy highway in Parkland, Washington, on Thursday. 

A 20-year-old uncle is suffering from second-to-third degree burns in the hospital after he ran into his burning home in Aberdeen, Washington, to save his niece.

A recently passed Washington law will force colleges to reschedule exams for Muslim students who are celebrating religious holidays.

A cougar in central Washington state pushed a four-year-old boy to the ground while they were on a walk through a park around 9 p.m. on Saturday.

On Tuesday a federal judge rejected a motion to dismiss a lawsuit against Washington’s gun control Initiative 1639.

Officials who oversee Seattle’s transit system moved to ban political, religious, and other ads from its facilities and public transportation vehicles soon after Pamela Geller’s American Freedom Defense Initiative (AFDI) prevailed in a freedom of speech lawsuit against the city, earning the right to run FBI’s Most Wanted terrorist posters, Breitbart News has learned.

The Motel 6 hotel chain will pay $12 million to the state of Washington for cooperating with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

A judge sentenced a teenage girl to two days in jail on Wednesday for pushing her friend off a 60-foot bridge in Washington state, causing her to suffer serious injuries from the fall.

The Washington state Senate passed a measure this week that would keep President Trump’s name from appearing on the 2020 presidential election ballot until he makes his tax returns available to the public.

Lawmakers in Washington state are considering a bill that would give the homeless state-issued ID cards free of charge.

Several winter storms that have pounded Washington state have killed about 1,600 dairy cows in the area, a group of dairy farmers said Tuesday.

Washington State is poised to become the first state in the Union to allow “human composting,” or the “accelerated conversion of human remains to soil.”

The Georgia Department of Public Health (GPH) has confirmed three cases of measles in the metro Atlanta area. Two were identified on January 13 and one on January 26. All three cases were for individuals who were members of the same family and were not vaccinated, according to GPH.

Sheriffs in rural Washington state are reportedly refusing to enforce the gun controls contained in an initiative passed by voters in November 2018.

While it remains unclear whether Washington Gov. Jay Inslee will run for president in 2020, a Crosscut/Elway Poll released Thursday revealed more than 35 percent of those from Washington would support his bid as the Democratic presidential nominee.

A Washington state judge set a trial date for the welfare fraud case of Rachel Dolezal, a white woman who made her claim to fame by posing as a black woman for decades.

Police arrested a porn star at a Washington state airport on Wednesday for allegedly spearheading a murder-for-hire plot to kill a person only identified by the initials “H.R.”

City officials removed a Nativity scene from a public park in Woodland, Washington, on Tuesday after receiving several complaints that a Christian display was featured on public property.

A homeless man is being hailed for his honesty after he discovered a bag containing $17,000 outside of a Washington state food bank and gave it to the staff instead of pocketing the money.

A group of thieves in Washington state is accused of stealing Christmas joy from kids in need on Tuesday, running off with hundreds of bicycles and helmets meant to be donated to the less-fortunate for Christmas.

Washington State University Professor Richard King condemns Native American team mascots in a new book, including McGill University’s team name, the “Redmen,” despite the fact that it is most likely tied to the university’s heavy use of the color red, considered a central part of the university’s identity.

A Bellevue, Washington, police chief was cleared of charges accusing him of raping a woman after an investigation revealed the woman conjured fake emails to legitimize her accusation.

A judge sentenced the owner of a seafood company in Washington state to two years behind bars Friday for overharvesting $1.5 million of sea cucumbers.

Washington State ballot initiative I-1639 contains a linguistic twist equating all semiautomatic rifles with “assault rifles.”

A teenager suffered serious injuries after her friend reportedly pushed her from a 60-foot bridge in Washington state on Tuesday, according to a video of the incident.

The state of Washington has sued Silicon Valley giants Facebook and Google over alleged violations of state campaign finance laws.

A man in the state of Washington who burned an American flag blanket over the Memorial Day weekend ended up starting a five-acre wildfire, according to local authorities.