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Colorado shares its success in marijuana business
It is a sea of green. In a 20,000-square-foot Colorado warehouse, marijuana is legally permitted and grown on a scale not yet seen in Washington. Several rooms across two levels provide places for pot to grow at various stages of cultivation. Voters in Colorado and Washington both legalized recreational marijuana ...
Your tax money will pay to clean up forest after shooting club used it for decades
The tiny town of Index, Wash. offers breathtaking views along the Snohomish River just northwest of Stevens Pass. Now, part of the national forest there has been deemed contaminated and unusable. And your tax money will be used to once again make it usable after a shooting club used it ...
Local high-tech firms seek permission to hire more foreign workers
Thousands of local high-tech workers are on the unemployment rolls. However, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Facebook are asking Congress to double the number of high-tech workers that American companies can hire from overseas. Paul Mitzel is an experienced software engineer and project manager. "You can't even believe what I've done ...
Tug-of-war grows over portion of Seattle’s fishing fleet
A tug-of-war over a portion of the Seattle-based fishing fleet is heating up. Coastal Villages Region Fund, the largest Alaska-based seafood company, has moved four boats from Seattle to Seward for the off-season and hopes to someday relocate the rest of the fleet. It currently has about two dozen vessels. ...
You're just an accident or surgery away from becoming a heroin addict
A drug problem is taking over Western Washington. If you think it doesn't affect you, think again. The DEA calls heroin public enemy number one, and it all starts with prescription painkillers. You may find it hard to believe you’re just a surgery or accident away from a heroin addiction. ...
Are taxpayers getting ferry fleeced or receiving good value?
Washington state is buying new ferries to replace an aging fleet. But a recent state audit said Washington taxpayers spent from $7.5 to $42 million more than other ferry buyers for the six newest ferries. "You can say that we could build ferries cheaper," said State Auditor Troy Kelley, commenting ...
Jailed robbers, rapists, killers rack up millions in medical bills
Robbers, rapists and killers who abused their bodies while on the street are now racking up millions in medical bills behind bars. Privacy laws prevent county jails from revealing who is getting treatment and how much it’s costing you. KIRO 7 Eyewitness News Investigates the high cost of caring for ...
Government subsidizing cool cars for rich people
A KIRO 7 investigation is raising questions about tax breaks for the rich in the form of electric car incentives. Some cars are so expensive, only the wealthy can afford them anyway. Buyers of new electric cars are eligible for a $7,500 federal tax credit. And in Washington state, they ...
Whistleblower: Health inspectors turning blind eye to ethnic restaurants
King County Health inspectors find some nasty things while looking for health code violations --like frozen chicken feet thawing in a filthy mop sink, raw chicken stored in a bucket underneath a dishwashing area or shrimp in a bin on a moldy floor. But a source inside the Health Department ...
Taholah High School athletes blackballed
Student athletes at Taholah High School were concerned last December when four local school districts voted to dissolve their athletic league and become independent. Then the districts decided they would rather forfeit the remaining games than play Taholah's athletes, most of them members of the Quinault Indian Tribe. The tribe ...
Store clerks’ honesty put to test with winning lottery submissions
Many of us have dreamed about what we'd do if we won the lottery. However, what if you actually had a big winning ticket, and a store clerk checked and told you it was a loser, but then cashed it in himself? This kind of fraud does happen and KIRO ...
3 decades after desegregation, students say race a factor in unequal punishment
It's been three decades since schools were desegregated, but Seattle Public Schools admits discrimination is still a problem in its classrooms. KIRO 7's David Ham investigates why students say they're being given unequal punishment and how the feds are now getting involved. There's a fight brewing at one of Seattle's ...
Seattle taxpayers foot bill for students’ pricey rides to school
Every school day, while tens of thousands of Seattle Public Schools students wait at bus stops, KIRO 7 learned some 300 other students are chauffeured to school. Private drivers pick them up from their front doors and drive them to school in taxi cabs and pricey Lincoln Town Cars. And ...
Puget Sound poised for epic landslide
It's been a near-record season for devastating mudslides in Western Washington. Homes have been destroyed. Dozens more are now on the edge of cliffs. The worst may still be ahead. "That's where the mud came in first,” said Richard Lord. Lord was home with his dog when a wall of ...
Violent fugitives ‘home free’ when no one pays for extradition
Nearly 50,000 Washington state criminals and suspects are on the run, hiding either in-state or somewhere around the world. All of them have warrants for their arrest, but a vast majority will never see the inside of a prison cell, even when police know where they are, because the ...
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