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You've seen the menus in some of the restaurants. Now, as of Monday, food retailers, including vending machines, are required to display calorie counts on menus.

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers held her first Spokane town hall since the 2016 election, taking questions on health care, the president and North Korea. The Spokesman-Review reports the Republican congresswoman fielded over 20 questions Thursday at the event for 300 at Gonzaga University...

Enough insurers are planning to sell coverage on the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges next year to keep those markets working in most parts of the country. Competition has dwindled, however, and another round of steep price hikes is expected to squeeze consumers who don't receive big income-based tax credits to help pay their bill...

SEATTLE (AP) — Carol Newhouse, the wife of Washington state Republican U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, has died. She was 62. The congressman's office said in a news release that she died Friday. It did not say where she died or give a cause of death...

OLYMPIA  (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee says say that a nonpartisan analysis of the Republican plan to replace the national health care law "confirms our worst fears." Monday's report by the Congressional Budget Office projects that 14 million people nationwide would lose coverage next year under the House bill dismantling former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act... Read Mo

OLYMPIA (AP) — The Washington House has passed a measure that seeks to ensure that preventative health coverage benefits remain intact in the state, regardless of what happens at the federal level. The measure passed the Democratic-controlled chamber Wednesday on a bipartisan 70-28 vote and now heads to the Republican-led Senate for consideration...

OLYMPIA  (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee says that health care discussions at a weekend meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington, D.C. were "very troubling, very disturbing and not at all reassuring." Inslee spoke with reporters by phone Monday on the last day of the gathering...

ISSAQUAH (AP) — Hundreds of people demonstrated outside one of Rep. Dave Reichert's district offices and demanded that the Republican congressman hold a town hall meeting. The Seattle Times reports that protesters on Thursday carried signs outside Reichert's office in Issaquah and urged him to save the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare...

SPOKANE (AP) — Gonzaga University has changed its health insurance policy for pregnant women after a law firm alleged the school was illegally denying maternity care to dependents of employees. The Spokesman-Review reported Thursday that the National Women's Law Center filed a complaint in 2013, claiming the university violated the Affordable Care Act by refusing to provide prenatal care to some w

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Two of the state's prominent Democrats are asking its most powerful congressional Republican to help save Obamacare. Gov. Jay Inslee and Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler wrote a letter Thursday to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers in an effort to save the Affordable Care Act...