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The school district here is getting federal money to pay expenses related to the Oso mudslide.
During the August district-work period, we traveled our districts in the states of Washington, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Illinois and met with small-business owners, entrepreneurs and middle-class families who desperately want to see a Congress focused on fostering an environment for job growth.
Dozens of people who helped clean up in the aftermath of the Oso landslide are about to lose their jobs.
But they're hoping the experience they gained through that disaster will help them start a new chapter in life.
MOUNT VERNON — The Skagit County Sheriff’s Office will receive a $250,000 grant from the Department of Justice to hire two new deputies as part of a federal program to create or preserve jobs in law enforcement, according to an announcement Tuesday from Congresswoman Suzan DelBene.
The Bear Creek School (TBCS) was one of 50 private schools nationwide selected as a Blue Ribbon School of Excellence on Tuesday, and the only school in the state of Washington, public or private, recognized this year by U.S.
Congressional pressure for the NFL and other major sports leagues to get a handle on domestic violence continues to ratchet up.
The federal Food and Drug Administration is shelving a proposed change that threatened to end beer-makers' ability to give away their soggy, used-up grains to farmers for livestock feed.
SEATTLE — The U. S. Geological Survey is starting to improve monitoring of Glacier Peak, a Cascades volcano in eastern Snohomish County.
It's the closest volcano to Seattle — just 70 miles northeast of the city.