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In Vancouver, a Box of T-Shirts Hid the Biggest Cocaine Bust Police Have Ever Seen

Vancouver police say 328.55 kg of cocaine, worth $5.8 million, turned up hidden in a routine t-shirt shipment traced from Honduras to Montreal to Vancouver.
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Ottawa’s New Economic Bill Puts the Right to Strike on the Table — Just as a Bank of Canada Strike Nears 100 Days

Parliament's fall sitting opened with Bill C-39, reshaping strike rules in rail, ports and airlines — as unions cry foul and a Bank of Canada strike drags on.

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King County’s New One-Cent Housing Tax Needs No Vote. Its Old One Lost Six Cities.

Zahilay wants a council-only sales tax for shelter and housing. History with the county's last housing tax suggests suburban cities may just take the money for themselves.
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SPD Releases Video of Officer Shooting Woman on Domestic-Violence Call Near Jose Rizal Park

Body-camera footage shows a Seattle officer shooting a woman armed with a tire iron near Jose Rizal Park. She is in critical condition; King County's independent team investigates.
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Seattle Council Bans Grocery ‘Surveillance Pricing’ in 7-2 Vote

Seattle Council voted 7-2 to bar large grocery chains from pricing shoppers by personal data. Kettle and Rivera dissented; grocers question the loyalty-discount line.
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Microsoft Cuts 300 More Washington Jobs as Xbox Restructuring Nears 75% Complete

Microsoft cut about 300 more Washington jobs Sept. 22, mostly in Xbox Game Studios, bringing Redmond-area losses past 900 since July as Halo, Rare and World's Edge shift to Activision.
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West Seattle’s ICE Response Network Meets a Test: What Happened Sept. 19-22, and What the Law Actually Allows

An ICE operation, a planned protest and a community briefing collided in West Seattle this week. Here's what was documented, and what state and Seattle law say police can do.
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SPD After-Action Report: Officers Moved in 30 Seconds, City Took Five Hours to Speak

SPD's after-action report on the Bite of Seattle shooting praises officers' 30-second response but blames elected officials for a five-hour delay in public briefings.
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Coca-Cola’s Bellevue Plant Sued Over Stormwater Reaching Lake Washington

A Covington nonprofit sued Swire Coca-Cola's Bellevue plant Sept. 18, alleging stormwater zinc and copper above permit limits reached Goff Creek and Lake Washington, with no enforcement so far.
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Seattle Gas Hits $5.73 as Diesel Spike Squeezes Washington Farmers and King County’s Supply Chain

Seattle gas hit $5.73 a gallon Sept. 22, $1.27 above the national average, as diesel near $7 squeezes Washington farmers and King County's supply chain.
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300 Seattle School Bus Drivers Authorize Strike as Retirement Dispute With Zūm Stalls

About 300 Seattle Public Schools bus drivers have authorized a strike against contractor Zūm Services over retirement contributions, Teamsters Local 174 says, with no walkout date yet set.
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Wilson’s First Seattle Budget: $9.1B, No New Taxes, 128 Jobs Cut

Mayor Katie Wilson's first budget adds 66 police officers, cuts 128 jobs and claims no new taxes. A council budget chair says a decade-old gap isn't fixed in one cycle.
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Seventy Baristas Had to Reconstruct Their Own Paychecks. A Judge Found the Records Were Missing by Design

By Horace R. Cayton Sr. — DailySnackNews, King County Desk King County Superior Court Judge...
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Seattle Will Cut the Fee That Builds Affordable Housing, to Get Housing Built

By Horace R. Cayton Sr. — DailySnackNews, King County Desk Councilmember Dionne Foster introduced legislation...
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Canada

In Vancouver, a Box of T-Shirts Hid the Biggest Cocaine Bust Police Have Ever Seen

Vancouver police say 328.55 kg of cocaine, worth $5.8 million, turned up hidden in a routine t-shirt shipment traced from Honduras to Montreal to Vancouver.
Canada

Ottawa’s New Economic Bill Puts the Right to Strike on the Table — Just as a Bank of Canada Strike Nears 100 Days

Parliament's fall sitting opened with Bill C-39, reshaping strike rules in rail, ports and airlines — as unions cry foul and a Bank of Canada strike drags on.
Mexico

Twelve Years Later, Ayotzinapa’s Parents March Again — Demanding 853 Pages the Army Won’t Release

Families of the 43 missing Ayotzinapa students marched in Chilpancingo demanding military files a judge ordered released. Sheinbaum's report, delayed again, now comes Sept. 28.
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A $163 Fee, a 330-Unit Building, and the Loophole Testing San Diego’s Affordable Housing Law

San Diego's Housing Commission says a 2024 state law banning affordable-housing monitoring fees doesn't apply to it — and a San Ysidro project is the test case.