Don Jenkins

A farmworker union has asked U.S. District Judge John Chun in Seattle to cancel visas for thousands of foreign workers recruited for 2025 fruit harvests in Eastern Washington. Familias Unidas por La Justicia alleges the U.S. Department of Labor violated an order Chun issued in July that made committing to pay piece-rates a condition for farmers to hire workers through the H-2A visa program.

The Washington Department of Wildlife is considering whether to kill a wolf or two in a pack attacking calves in southeast Washington.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is offering up to $10,000 for tips leading to an arrest and a conviction in a wolf poaching in Klickitat County, Wash.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture will ask permission from more than 17,600 property owners in Benton, Franklin and Yakima counties for access to spray for Japanese beetles. WSDA

Transportation is the largest source of greenhouse gases in Washington, according to the Department of Ecology. Don Jenkins/Capital Press

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife will try to lethally remove one or two wolves from a pack attacking calves in southeast Washington. Fish and Wildlife Director Kelly Susewind authorized the removal Monday. The department also will issue a rancher a permit to shoot a wolf if on private property in Columbia County.

The Justice Department has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate a reporting deadline for the Corporate Transparency Act.

The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife removed two wolves Jan. 13 from the Columbia pack in southeast Washington.

Newly appointed Washington Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Lynn O'Connor said she doesn't have an agenda, though her appointment has been criticized by sportsmen's groups. Gov. Jay Inslee, in one of his last acts in office, appointed O'Connor to a six-year term, rather than reappointing Douglas County rancher Molly Linville, who was widely seen as an advocate for sportsmen and rural residents.

The Washington Supreme Court ruled Jan. 16 that forestland owners are immune from lawsuits if trees they left standing at the state's direction fall on property or people. templecentennial.courts.wa.gov