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WA: State budget gap widens

By Brad Shannon

An additional $760 million in hoped-for state revenue evaporated in the latest economic forecast, and lawmakers began talking up the pros and cons of tax increases to help plug a budget shortfall now estimated at $2.7 billion.

WA: Governor opposes delay in WASL math and science

By Randy Dorn

Gov. Chris Gregoire says she opposes state schools chief Randy Dorn's proposal to delay the requirement for students to pass state math and science tests to graduate.

WA: Ranks of uninsured swell in state

By John Stucke

Washington state is on pace to reach a dangerous milestone within 14 months, Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler said Thursday: 1 million uninsured residents.

WA: Criminal deportations spike in Pacific Northwest

By Manuel Valdes, The Associated Press

SEATTLE -- Deportations of illegal immigrants with criminal records from Alaska, Oregon, and Washington this past year spiked by nearly 40 percent, while overall removals dropped for the first time in five years, according to new data released by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

WA: Saving two programs funded by state focus of public forum

By Kathie Durbin

The Southwest Washington Area Agency on Aging and Disabilities will hold a public forum Saturday to build support for the preservation of two state-funded programs that help seniors and the disabled and their families.

WA: Feds -- 6 illegal immigrants arrested in Wash.

By The Associated Press

SEATTLE -- Immigration officials say six illegal immigrants have been arrested in Mount Vernon, Wash., after agents descended on a trailer park.

WA: Biologists save fish after landslide

By Shannon Dininny

NILE, Wash. -- Fisheries biologists from 10 government agencies and private groups are working shifts to try to save the fish.

WA: Man gets $4 million after jail beating

By Staff Reports

A man who suffered permanent brain damage from a beating by his cellmate at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton has received a $4 million settlement from the Washington State Department of Corrections.

WA: BPA proposal for new high-voltage line draws heat

By The Associated Press

VANCOUVER, Wash. -- A Bonneville Power Administration proposal to build a new high-voltage power line across one of several possible corridors between new substations in Castle Rock, Wash., and Troutdale, Ore., is drawing heated comment.

WA: S.C. senator -- We 'threw everything at Boeing'

By Michelle Esteban

CHARLESTON, S.C. -- South Carolina Sen. Paul Campbell, R-Goose Creek, said the tough competition from Washington state made South Carolina work even harder for the bid.

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