All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 21 2014 // Too much heat and too little rain this summer are taking a toll on the winter wheat crop in Eastern Washington. Joel Zwainz on Monday estimated that his family’s 3,400-acre farm near Reardan will produce 30 to 50...
Aug 20 2014 // Uber has enlisted David Plouffe, President Barack Obama’s 2008 campaign manager, to devise and run its global political and branding strategy, as the fast-expanding car rides-on-demand startup runs into stiff...
Aug 18 2014 // The U.S. Justice Department said it will file no criminal charges following a four-year investigation into the April 2010 explosion that killed seven workers at the Tesoro Corp. refinery in Anacortes, Wash.The decision was...
Aug 17 2014 // Insurer American International Group is ramping up its lobbying team in Washington, almost six years after it halted such efforts following its rescue by the U.S. government during the financial crisis.Many large companies...
Aug 14 2014 // Homeowners with poor credit pay 91 percent more for homeowners’ insurance than people with excellent credit, according to a study by an online insurance shopping service.The report by insuranceQuotes.com also found...
Aug 13 2014 // Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire KMS Financial Services Inc., a Seattle, Wash.-based independent broker-dealer and investment advisor with a strong presence in the...
Aug 12 2014 // Federal disaster aid has been made available to Washington to supplement state, tribal and local recovery efforts in the area affected by wildfires from July 9 to Aug. 5, the Federal Emergency Management Agency...
Aug 11 2014 // Fresh Unlimited Inc. won’t have to provide contraceptive coverage for its employees under the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law, in what may be the first exemption granted since a June U.S. Supreme...
Aug 7 2014 // A Seattle artist who designed a line of plush pet toys called “Angry Birds” is suing the company that sold them, saying it cheated her of millions of dollars when it reached a deal with the Finnish company that...
Aug 6 2014 // Seattle, Wash.-based AssureStart has named Chad Zenner as its new chief marketing officer. Zenner will drive AssureStart’s digital marketing and branding activities as well as work to enhance the online customer...
Aug 6 2014 // The U.S. Treasury Department is examining unilateral actions to curb corporate inversions, reversing its position that only Congress has the authority to stop or slow the deals.About three weeks after Secretary Jacob J....
Aug 5 2014 // Two wildfires that burned or threatened hundreds of homes in Northern California were bearing down on a small town as they plowed through more than 100 square miles of drought-stricken brush, and Tuesday brought a chance...
Aug 4 2014 // The family of a girl who was critically wounded two years ago when a gun went off inside a classmate’s backpack at her Washington state elementary school agreed Friday to a $1.2 million legal settlement.The Bremerton...
Aug 4 2014 // Allstate Insurance Co. plans to add several local agency owners in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Alaska and Hawaii in 2014.Allstate’s plan is to recruit 51 new exclusive agents, 13 financial specialists and the company...
Aug 3 2014 // The Obama administration asked the full U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington to reconsider a three- judge panel’s ruling that customers on the federal marketplace authorized by the healthcare overhaul are ineligible...
Jul 30 2014 // Coal miners took on skiers, and environmentalists dueled with business groups as the public debated sweeping rules from the Obama administration to combat global warming in a nationwide series of hearings yesterday.At the...
Jul 29 2014 // The cost of fighting this season’s wildfires in Washington, including the largest one in the state’s history, has crossed the $50 million mark.Bolstered by the nearly 400-square-mile wildfire in north-central...
Jul 28 2014 // An independent investigator says the state insurance office’s top administrative-law judge was misleading and untruthful when it came to a high-profile insurance case that ultimately led to her suspension in...
Jul 28 2014 // Insurance agent, insurance carrier and real estate lobbyists praised federal regulators in charge of the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) last week on Capitol Hill, agreeing that the process of issuing flood...
Jul 24 2014 // Two former employees of the Miles City branch of Stockman Bank in Montana have filed a lawsuit alleging sexual discrimination by their supervisors.Cindy Conley of Miles City and Tracee Burchell of Castle Rock, Colorado,...