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Moses Lake School Board intends to follow President Trump's directive preventing transgender athletes from competing in sports. In a letter to Washington Governor Bob Ferguson and State Superintendent Chris Reykdal drafted Feb. 25, the board says Reykdal's recent comments to the media and in public indicate an unwillingness to comply with directives from the U...

Gubernatorial candidate Bob Ferguson connects with unionized labor in Wenatchee, highlighting working-class bona fides.

A bill moving through the Washington House is seeking to criminalize thoughts and expressions under a new category of offenses known as "domestic violent extremism". The state's Attorney General Bob Ferguson requested the introduction of HB 1333 to curb the potential of domestic terrorism by allowing for the prosecution of some people's words and speech, rather than for actual acts of vi

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a motion in mid-June asking Douglas County Superior Court to dismiss two lawsuits against the state regarding the recently passed capital gains tax that is scheduled to go into effect in 2022 ...

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has announced a trio of bills he is proposing to the legislature this upcoming session aimed at stopping mass shootings. One would limit the number of rounds in a magazine to ten. The second would, once again, try to ban any NEW sale of assault-style weapons…or semi-automatic weapons that contain at least one military-style feature. The t...

Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is suing the Trump administration for the 48th time. Ferguson filed a lawsuit Thursday to block the Trump administration's plan to divert more than $3.6 billion in congressionally approved military construction projects...

SPOKANE — Attorney General Bob Ferguson announced today that Horning Brothers, LLC, a Quincy-based agricultural company, will pay $525,000 in a civil rights enforcement action claiming sexual harassment of multiple female agricultural workers, discriminatory hiring and sex-segregated employment practices and retaliation against workers who reported the improper conduct. T...

From a press release - Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson today filed a lawsuit to shut down six fake nonprofit entities posing as well-known, international organizations created by Ian Richard Hosang, a former stockbroker who has ties to the mafia...

From a press release - Attorney General Bob Ferguson today announced that in order to avoid a lawsuit from his office, seven large, corporate fast-food chains will immediately end a nationwide practice that restricts worker mobility and decreases competition for labor by preventing workers from moving among the chains’ franchise locations. The ...

The Washington State Attorney General's office has instituted enforcement actions against eight housing providers, including some in Eastern Washington, for discrimination against veterans. The case came about after housing management companies refused to take Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing, or VASH, vouchers in Walla Walla, Benton, Spokane, Thurston and King Counties...