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(The Center Square) - Paramount Skydance won a federal judge’s approval Wednesday to proceed with a $111-billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery in a historic Hollywood merger.
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(The Center Square) - More than 100 Puget Sound Energy ratepayers packed a four-hour public hearing in Lacey Tuesday night to urge members of the Utilities and Transportation Commission to reject PSE’s proposed rate hikes for electricity and natural gas.
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(The Center Square) - Former Sound Transit Board Member David Baker called Sound Transit’s newest light rail station a waste of taxpayer money.
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(The Center Square) - Spokane residents have until Nov. 15 to weigh in on proposed changes to the city's development regulations as officials work to modernize rules governing housing, construction and land use.
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(The Center Square) – A recent ruling from the Washington State Supreme Court against a voter-approved initiative to protect natural gas as an energy choice could have wide reaching consequences for other initiatives and legislation, including the recently passed income tax law.
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(The Center Square) – Washington state's plans to electrify private and public transportation sectors and spend hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on charging infrastructure are still facing numerous logistical and practical challenges.
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(The Center Square) - A former health care executive who embezzled more than $30 million from a Washington health care organization was sentenced to four years in federal prison, with a judge ordering him to repay more than $24.3 million.
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(The Center Square) - Seattle’s next police chief will likely already have a Seattle connection or be quickly willing to establish one, said Alison Holcomb, the mayor’s public safety director.
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(The Center Square) - Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson is asking President Donald Trump to approve a major disaster declaration for Eastern Washington wildfires that destroyed hundreds of homes, displaced thousands of residents and caused more than $188 million in estimated damage.
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(The Center Square) - A planned $35 million Veterans Affairs clinic in Kennewick is set to bring expanded medical services closer to thousands of veterans in the Tri-Cities and surrounding communities who currently travel to Walla Walla and other cities for care.
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