All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 7 2021 // Washington D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser is working alongside the district’s Department of Insurance, Securities and Banking (DISB) to increase opportunities for high school and college students to pursue careers in...
Jul 5 2021 // Yakima County Superior Court has approved a $1 million settlement that provides retroactive overtime pay for workers at a Lower Yakima Valley dairy.The settlement wraps up a class-action lawsuit filed in 2016 by Jose...
Jul 1 2021 // The Washington state Department of Labor & Industries is reporting that it was recently notified that one of its contractors, Pacific Market Research, was the victim of a ransomware attack on its data systems.During...
Jun 30 2021 // Most of the COVID-19 restrictions that have been in place and modified several times since last spring were lifted in Washington on Wednesday, meaning restaurants and bars and other businesses could resume full indoor...
Jun 29 2021 // The first two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) employed a technology that had never before been used in FDA-approved vaccines. Both vaccines performed well in...
Jun 28 2021 // The owner-operator of an Olympia, Wash., dry cleaning business faces a felony charge alleging he stole workers’ compensation benefits by faking the severity of his injury.Byung Sung Kang, 54, is scheduled for...
Jun 23 2021 // Yakima County Superior Court has approved a $1 million settlement that provides retroactive overtime pay for workers at a Lower Yakima Valley dairy.The settlement wraps up a class-action lawsuit filed in 2016 by Jose...
Jun 21 2021 // A Black newspaper carrier confronted by Pierce County Sheriff Ed Troyer in Washingotn has filed a legal claim seeking at least $5 million in damages.Attorneys representing Sedrick Altheimer submitted the tort claim against...
Jun 21 2021 // The Washington Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $3.25 million to the family of a man who died at Monroe Correctional Complex after not receiving adequate medical care.A lawsuit filed by Julia Kleutsch said her...
Jun 15 2021 // The City of Forks has paid $333,000 to settle a civil-rights lawsuit filed by relatives of a man who was shot and killed by police in 2016 after an officer allegedly escalated a welfare check into a deadly...
Jun 9 2021 // Licensed marijuana stores in Washington state can offer free joints to promote on-site COVID-19 vaccine clinics, officials said this week.The state Liquor and Cannabis Board is calling the effort the “Joints for...
Jun 8 2021 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler and California Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara are askikng all insurers that are currently required to report to them annually on climate change to start reporting their...
Jun 8 2021 // The Washington state Department of Corrections has agreed to pay $3.25 million to the family of a man who died at Monroe Correctional Complex after not receiving adequate medical care.A lawsuit filed by Julia Kleutsch said...
Jun 7 2021 // More transparency is needed into what kind of cash payments are made after ransomware attacks, a top Democrat said, following a recent spate of cyber-attacks aimed at U.S. companies.Mark Warner, chairman of the Senate...
Jun 7 2021 // A Cowlitz County, Wash., man stands accused of faking injuries to collect nearly $300,000 in workers’ compensation benefits.James Joseph Thomasson, 52, of Kalama, was arraigned in Thurston County Superior Court on...
Jun 7 2021 // Fifteen military families have filed a lawsuit against a private company that manages housing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington over living conditions they say caused property damage and health problems.The 51...
Jun 4 2021 // Board members at Casa Latina, a decades-old organization founded to empower immigrant workers and provide job and educational opportunities, has announced it will investigate the handling of sexual harassment and assault...
May 28 2021 // A proposed class-action lawsuit claims popular Western Washington chain restaurant Zeeks Pizza withheld wages, tips and other money owed to delivery drivers.Seattle attorney Toby Marshall filed the suit on behalf of Zeeks...
May 27 2021 // Some top agriculture groups are upset with Washington Gov. Jay Inslee because farm workers were not covered in last week’s announcement that fully vaccinated employees do not have to wear a mask or socially distance...
May 25 2021 // A Cowlitz County, Wash., man stands accused of faking injuries to collect nearly $300,000 in workers’ compensation benefits.James Joseph Thomasson, 52, of Kalama, is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday in Thurston...