 01/28/10 Do not be fooled by Kevin Rudd's whirlwind tour of Australia's capital cities, including Perth.
 01/28/10 Senator Patty Murray (D-WA) announced Wednesday that $590 million in federal funding will go to Washington state for high speed rail upgrades in the Pacific Northwest Cascades corridor.
01/28/10 Australia is promoted as a country of macadamias, Morrissey and merlot on Federal Government websites attempting to attract international students.
 01/28/10 The Federal Opposition's immigration spokesman has labelled the Christmas Island detention centre as a "quasi visa factory".
 01/28/10 A Benton County judge sentenced serial bank robber Troy Fuller to 19 years behind bars Thursday. It may seem like a long time but Fuller actually caught a break. A legal loophole spared him from life in prison.
01/28/10 The geographical problems on the My School website persist despite assurances they would be fixed.
 01/28/10 Dave Itzen, a longtime member of the Brookings-Harbor School Board and a member of the Coos-Curry Electric Board of Directors, was the first to throw his hat into the ring to win Georgia Nowlin's seat on the Curry County Board of Commissioners.
 01/21/10 The White House will offer proposals to limit financial institutions' size and trading activities as a way to reduce risk-taking
 01/21/10 State Republicans hope what happened in Massachusetts is the start of a big turnaround.
 01/15/10 President Barack Obama invited dozens of business executives to the White House to solicit advice on how to make the federal government more tech-savvy.
 01/15/10 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- Cuba has opened its airspace for medical evacuation flights from earthquake-ravaged Haiti, the White House said Friday.
 01/15/10 The future of beach volleyball as an NCAA sport is in jeopardy, with opposition arising from an unlikely source. Coaches and administrators at traditional indoor volleyball powers like Penn State, the three-time defending national champion, and about half of the beach-blanketed Pac 10 have forced a vote at the NCAA convention in Atlanta on Friday to remove "sand volleyball" from a list of ...
 01/15/10 5:55 a.m. Friday, January 15, 2010 -- The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson is to arrive in Haiti on Friday, carrying 19 helicopters and 30 pallets of relief goods, Air Force Gen. Douglas Fraser said.
 01/15/10 Jan. 15 (Bloomberg) -- While President Barack Obama counts on the populist appeal of a plan to tax the biggest financial firms, his idea already is being buffeted by political headwinds.
 01/14/10 This is a triple dose of bad news for real estate in Everett. These three separate bits of informati...
 01/07/10 Here is a rule thumb for modern times: never put anything in an e-mail you wouldn't mind seeing on the front page of the New York Times ...
 01/07/10 THE $1.5 million high-tech Ady Gil, cut in two by a Japanese harpoon vessel, has sunk in a failed tow attempt, anti-whaling activists say. Last picture
 01/06/10 Connecticut senator Chris Dodd, one of the few U.S. senators to publicly support full marriage equality, will announce today that he is bowing out of the November midterm election.
 01/06/10 KIRKLAND, WA - Kenworth Truck Company is expanding its industry-leading product line with the introduction of the Cummins Westport ISL G natural gas engine for the Kenworth T800 short hood and W900S models.
01/06/10 The WA Greens say vested interests have limited the chances of the Ningaloo coast being nominated for World Heritage Listing.
 01/06/10 In a desperate bid to be freed from a Balinese prison, Perth trade unionist Robert Mcjannett has admitted to carrying marijuana into Indonesia. | 
