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  ‘ICE out!’ Seattle students gather downtown to protest federal immigration crackdown

  Hundreds of Seattle-area students walked out of school Thursday and gathered at Seattle City Hall downtown to protest the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers across the country.

  • Megan Farmer
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  Justice Department 'workaround' keeps former immigration judge as Seattle’s top prosecutor

  The Trump administration is using a workaround to retain its preferred U.S. attorney in Seattle, despite his lack of confirmation by the U.S. Senate. It’s a tactic the Justice Department has employed elsewhere, resulting in some legal challenges.

  • Amy Radil
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  Republican WA congressman: Immigration crackdown has ‘gotten out of hand’

  U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse said Wednesday that “a lot of questions need to be answered” in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti in Minnesota, but stopped short of calling for new leadership at the Department of Homeland Security.

  • Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
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  'Not our America.' Washington state leaders condemn federal shootings in Minnesota

  Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Attorney General Nick Brown held a press conference Monday to emphatically condemn federal actions in Minnesota and hint at their preparations should the Trump administration crack down similarly in Washington state.

  • Scott Greenstone
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  Washington’s largest climate polluter shuts down despite federal order

  The Pacific Northwest’s largest pollution source has shut down, and Washington state officials want to keep it that way.

  • John Ryan
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  Feds launch investigations into four WA school districts over trans athletes

  The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has announced they are investigating four school districts in Washington state for permitting transgender students to compete in school sports.

  • Noel Gasca
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  Sidelining Trump appointee, federal judges in Seattle will name new US attorney

  The chief federal judge in the Western District of Washington announced today that the court intends to exercise its power to appoint a new U.S. Attorney in Seattle. The Justice Department's appointee — interim U.S. Attorney Charles Neil Floyd — cannot continue to serve beyond Feb. 3 without support from either the U.S Senate or federal judges in Western Washington.

  • Amy Radil
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  Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Portland, LA, and Chicago, for now

  President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.

  • OPB Staff
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  Seattle-area Somalis seek officials’ help with daycare doxxing, immigration crackdown

  Members of the Seattle-area Somali community say they are reeling from the impact of President Donald Trump’s rhetoric — he recently referred to Somali Americans as “garbage” — and from an immigration crackdown that has sent people to detention or left them unable to work.

  • Amy Radil
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  Washington’s biggest polluter ordered to keep burning coal by Trump administration

  Two weeks before Washington state’s biggest source of climate pollution was required to end its five decades of burning coal, the Trump administration has given it a new lease on life.

  • John Ryan

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