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State launches new round of Working Washington small business grants

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Application deadline extended for federal relief funding to fishing industries

Eligible commercial fishing, shellfish, charter and seafood sector industry members who have been hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic…

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Using credit scores to set insurance premiums temporarily banned in Washington

OLYMPIA — Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler issued a temporary emergency rule Tuesday prohibiting insurers from using credit scoring…

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Nike Inc.’s relationship with its shoe-collecting followers has taken a hit because of a controversy involving a top executive and her shoe reseller son. Shown here is a small portion of one collector’s trove.

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Rare sneakers. Bots. Insider connections. This scandal has it all

By Ronald D. White

Northwest News

With changes coming at Postal Service, small business owners fear slower mail

By Orion Donovan-Smith

Northwest News

State investigators search 171 pet stores in Washington for invasive mussels

By Eli Francovich

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More $1,400 stimulus payments going out this week

By Susan Tompor

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Activists in New York City came out to show their support on Feb. 27 for the approximately 6,000 Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, who voted to be represented by the Retail, Wholesale Department Store Workers Union (RWDSU), becoming the first union at an Amazon facility in the country.

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Inspired by Alabama, Amazon workers weigh union drives elsewhere

By Spencer Soper and Josh Eidelson

REPORT PHOTO 
A photo from the engineering report on the Shoppes at Riverside shows the stage area, where a large “traveling crack” sound was heard in the structure above.

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Engineering report paints bleak picture of future of Shoppes at Riverside

Owners analyzing possiblity of repair to cinemas, reopening Extreme Fun Center

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Is Biden to blame for rising gas prices?

By Ron Hurtibise

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Local Business Briefs

Grays Harbor’s mayors featured for GGHI Annual Event

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Empty fruit bins that would ordinarily be filled and exported overseas in cargo containers are waiting at Stemilt Growers’ fruit-packing plant in Wenatchee on Monday.

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COVID-19 even affects Washington apples

By Paul Roberts

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With TV news viewing polarized, slice of Republicans leaving Fox to watch Newsmax

By Anthony Man