All the headlines from our Washington Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 18 2013 // Washington, D.C.’s commissioner for the department of insurance, securities and banking, William P. White, was dismissed last Friday, a day after questioning the White House’s proposal to let health insurers...
Nov 18 2013 // A Spokane, Wash., woman who wound up with a totaled car, a broken collarbone and a $550 ticket blames her post-Halloween crash on a person in a gorilla suit who she says jumped in front of her car.Hailey Wulz said she...
Nov 14 2013 // Almost 1 million people who applied for health care on the government insurance exchanges last month left without choosing a plan, a pipeline of potential customers the Obama administration must persuade to return.While...
Nov 11 2013 // An apple a day may not keep the doctor away, but it sure lines the pockets of Washington’s apple growers.Apples were worth more than $2 billion to Washington farmers in 2012, the first crop in state history to cross...
Nov 6 2013 // A Spokane, Wash., woman who wound up with a totaled car, a broken collarbone and a $550 ticket blames her post-Halloween crash on a person in a gorilla suit who she says jumped in front of her car.Hailey Wulz told KREM-TV...
Nov 5 2013 // America’s European allies are being hypocritical in their complaints about the U.S. spying on them because they all have their own surveillance programs, according to two former top officials in the Clinton...
Nov 4 2013 // Thousands of people were without power as of Sunday evening in Washington state following Saturday’s wind storm. The storm knocked out power to about 150,000 people in the Puget Sound region. About 10,000 were still...
Nov 4 2013 // A requirement of President Barack Obama’s health care law that group insurance plans cover contraceptives may violate religious freedom, a U.S. appeals court said, widening a split among the circuits and making it...
Oct 31 2013 // New information shows sediment buildup in the White River is increasing the flood danger faced by the city of Pacific, Wash.The King County Flood Control District, in cooperation with Pacific and the U.S. Army Corps of...
Oct 24 2013 // As the U.S. government closes in on a $13 billion settlement with JPMorgan Chase & Co. over its mortgage practices, lawyers specializing in bank mergers are looking for ways to protect their clients from big losses in...
Oct 23 2013 // The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) has agreed to settle a lawsuit against its insurance broker that stemmed from the 2009 red line crash that killed nine people.After the crash, Metro sued insurance...
Oct 16 2013 // Rural groups say they’ll fight a proposed $100 million-a-year cut in crop insurance subsidies, a measure that has won the support of both houses of Congress and could be a test of agriculture’s influence in...
Oct 9 2013 // Lockton Companies announced Keith Mulvihill has joined its Washington, D.C., office as a producer. He will focus on new business development and managing client relationships. Mulvihill will advise clients on risk...
Oct 9 2013 // The partial shutdown of the U.S. government has sidelined thousands of inspectors who monitor everything from air and water pollution to safety hazards at factories and the condition of nursing homes.Federal law requires...
Oct 6 2013 // Even before the cancellation of the latest round of EU-U.S. talks, negotiations to create the world’s largest free-trade deal were getting into difficulty territory.France won a concession to leave European movies...
Oct 4 2013 // A businessman accused of insuring golf tournament hole-in-one prizes then failing to pay plead guilty in a Washington court to two counts of selling insurance without a license and one count of first-degree theft.Kevin...
Oct 4 2013 // U.S. Justice Department lawyers from New York to San Francisco are asking judges to delay civil cases as the government partially shuts down, and in Manhattan already won a halt to litigation except one trial.The Justice...
Sep 27 2013 // U.S. Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia broke ranks with fellow Democrats and said he’d support a stopgap spending plan that delays the individual mandate in President Barack Obama’s health-care...
Sep 27 2013 // Regulators determined to let Mexican trucks on U.S. roads under a trade deal have downplayed safety shortcomings with companies in a border-crossing pilot program, according to safety, trucking and labor groups.Trucking...
Sep 23 2013 // It was early September and scientists were just back from a month-long research cruise in the Pacific Ocean off Washington, where they were trying to find the stickiest point on a section of the Cascadia Subduction Zone,...