The proposed labor contract would also establish a $12 hourly minimum wage for general government workers.
A 1986 state law says police can’t be convicted of a crime, such as murder, for using deadly force on the job as long as they acted in good faith and without malice, or “evil intent.”
Attorney General Bob Ferguson said he hopes such a law could prevent mass shootings like the one in Mukilteo in July.
Washington, where the minimum wage is tied to inflation under a 1998 ballot measure, had the highest base wage in the nation asrecently as 2015.
Oil train safety has been in the national spotlight following incidents such as the fiery derailment in 2013 that killed 47 people in Lac Megantic, Quebec, and the June derailment of a Union-Pacific train that spilled 42,000 gallons of oil near Mosier, Oregon.
Forage fish play a critical role in the food chain. Their health directly affects the health of salmon — and ultimately the overall economic health of Washington.
Donald Trump predicted a general election victory in Washington, which hasn’t voted Republican for president since Ronald Reagan in 1984.
More than 700 Washington students enrolled at ITT Tech’s three campuses in Seattle are losing funding.
Justice Charles Z. Smith, who rose from the poverty and racism of the Deep South to break ground as Washington’s first African-American state trial judge and Supreme Court justice, died Sunday in Seattle.
Prosecutors say Seleznev could face up to 40 years to life in prison.
The decision was made Wednesday in Thurston County Superior Court by Pierce County Judge Jack Nevin
U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler, wants to know how problematic opioid addiction is in Southwest WA.
A former Goldendale woman was sentenced today to serve life in prison.
