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SEATTLE (AP) — King County voters will decide in August whether to raise the county sales tax to pay for arts, culture and science programs. The Metropolitan King County Council, voting 7 to 2 Monday, approved placing the "Access for All" measure on the August primary ballot...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The White House is blasting a federal judge's decision Tuesday blocking President Trump's attempt to withhold funding from "sanctuary cities" that do not cooperate with U.S. immigration officials. But they say they're confident they'll prevail in the Supreme Court...

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington Governor Jay Inslee said he's encouraged by the changes that have been made to ensure the state's largest psychiatric hospital is safer for both patients and staff. After touring Western State Hospital on Tuesday, he said increases in staffing have benefited patients and he hopes to get the budget resources to keep that work going...

**House Agriculture Chairman Mike Conaway of Texas says he expects fewer new programs in the 2018 farm bill than there were in 2014. Money is the big consideration. At the Ag Outlook conference last week in Washington, D.C., he said that the introduction of new programs for the 2018 farm bill will need to be accompanied by proposals of where funding will come from...

FORT YATES, N.D. (AP) — The U.S. Census Bureau has canceled a planned field operations test next year on the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in the Dakotas due to funding concerns. Standing Rock was one of two reservations in the country that were to be included in tests leading up to the 2020 Census...

Yakima County Gang Court, while making an impact on the community is running short of funding. And that is hampering the programs’ ability to turn more lives around says County Court Consultant Harold Dehlia. He says currently 6 people are being helped by the year long program that is been in operation for the last 2 and a half years...

Ever heard the phrase "as ugly as nine miles of bad road"?  25% of Yakima's streets really are nine miles (and more) of bad road. What do we do about it?