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Columbian Newspaper
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West Coast Conference will add Seattle U., Grand Canyon beginning with 2025-26 season
SEATTLE — Seattle University and Grand Canyon University will join the West Coast Conference beginning with the 2025-26 season, giving the league best known nationally for its basketball programs 11 full members for the first time in its history. |
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Stock market today: Wall Street coasts to the finish line of another winning week
NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks coasted to the close of another winning week on Friday. |
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Ransomware attack: Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth hit in December
The Washington Center for Deaf & Hard of Hearing Youth, the state agency that operates Vancouver’s Washington School for the Deaf, alerted the public this week that it has been the victim of a ransomware attack. |
Seattle Times Opinion
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Black women entrepreneurs discover obstacles, blessings in new Seattle
A study found that Black female entrepreneurs face four main challenges: access to capital, prejudice from conventional lenders, lack of support and burnout. |
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Forget the cards and flowers: Here’s what American moms could really use for Mother’s Day
Support us with policies such as paid parental leave and federally funded child care, and restore our reproductive rights. |
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Americans’ evolving relationship with local news, in charts
Americans are paying less attention to news and more to sources like Facebook and government to stay informed. That's not how democracy is supposed to work. |
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Voters should do their homework on what repeal of climate law means
Voting for a repeal of the Climate Commitment Act over an increase in gas prices overlooks the benefits of Washington’s leadership on climate policy. |
Portland Business News
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Optum agrees to Oregon lawmakers' demands not to enforce noncompete agreements
A group of eight lawmakers last month asked the UnitedHealth not to enforce restrictive contract language, after constituents said a Eugene clinic and its owners "abandoned them."
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Portland lands Daimler's $40M electric truck engineering expansion and more
Daimler Truck North America will grow its presence on Swan Island in Portland.
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Washington State News
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Gray wolves see 15 years of consecutive population growth in WA
The State of Washington is proposing to downgrade gray wolves from "endangered" to "sensitive" status as a species. |
