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Washington's health care exchange will likely be off line until Sunday morning.

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The people who run Washington's health insurance exchange are hoping 85,000 people will buy private insurance during an open enrollment period that begins Saturday.

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Growers say labor woes at major West Coast sea ports have slowed the export of a record crop of Washington apples and endangered big Christmas season shipments of the fruit to Central America.

Delays have also hit shipments of autos, smartphones and numerous other products as longshoremen and shippers try to hammer out a new contract involving work at 29 West Coast ports

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Backers of a measure limiting class sizes in Washington state are declaring victory.

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Another of the teenagers wounded in a Washington state high school shooting has died, raising to five the number of fatalities after a student opened fire in the cafeteria two weeks ago.

Officials at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle said 15-year-old Andrew Fryberg died Friday evening

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Washington voters decisively backed expanded background checks for guns, a victory for advocates of stricter gun laws who say they will use the momentum from to pursue similar measures in other states

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Early returns show no clear decision yet on an initiative that would limit class sizes in Washington state.

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Voters have passed a measure to expand background checks on gun sales and transfers in Washington state.

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Toppenish police say two men used a firearm to rob a South Elm Street business early Tuesday morning.

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The key question hanging over legislative races today is which party will lead the state Senate for the next two years, a result that will have a role in defining the second-half of Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee's term

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