Voters in Burien will have a chance to weigh in on the city’s “sanctuary city” status this November. The Burien City Council voted last week to put a measure to overturn the ordinance on the Nov. 7 ballot.

Workers at Sarbanand Farms have been staging a protest, refusing to work due to their working conditions after one of their co-workers was hospitalized and ultimately passed away.

A task force in Tacoma has recommended the city pay $440,000 a year to provide immigrants detained at the Northwest Detention Center with legal representation. The Tacoma City Council has yet to make a decision. Councilman Marty Campbell said, “This (proposal) is coming to us a little less fleshed out than we normally have policies coming to us.”

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is being sued for not protecting shellfish. The lawsuit was filed by Center for Food Safety. Attorney Amy van Saun says a general permit the Corps approved, “allows for greatly increased conversion of tidelands into intensive shellfish operations without protections for crucial aquatic habitats.”

Energy Northwest has been indefinitely banned from shipping nuclear waste due to a mistake made by the company when labeling low-level radioactive waste last month.

25 to 30 homes in Adams County have been evacuated due to a wildfire burning through the rural area in a blaze that extends 16 square miles.

Spokane removed the Cedar Street stairs this past weekend. A spokesperson for the city, Julie Happy, said, “The stairs will be replaced to the condition they were,” as the city reports they were removed to install a stormwater basin.

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