Insights and Stories on Washington

Freeland to visit Washington this week for NAFTA talks

May. 28, 2018 at 7:31 pm CDT

Ottawa | Reuters — Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland will visit Washington this week in another bid to help unblock talks on the North American Free Trade Agreement, a spokesman said on Monday. Freeland will be in Washington on Tuesday and Wednesday, said spokesman Adam Austen. The U.S., Mexico […]

Washington begins killing wolf pack for preying on livestock

Aug. 29, 2016 at 9:12 pm CDT

By Steve Gorman

U.S., European trade negotiators battle political headwinds

Apr. 30, 2016 at 2:47 pm CDT

By David Lawder

Western states to get US$110M in drought aid

Jun. 12, 2015 at 4:24 pm CDT

By Reuters

No relief in sight for U.S. West’s drought in spring outlook

Mar. 19, 2015 at 6:28 pm CDT

By Christine Stebbins

New Washington poultry quarantine set up near B.C. border

Feb. 3, 2015 at 4:52 pm CST

Reuters — The state of Washington said Tuesday it has established a third poultry quarantine zone just outside British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley, after state officials discovered a flock of about 100 birds infected with an avian influenza virus. The Washington State Department of Agriculture adopted an emergency rule on Sunday […]

By P.J. Huffstutter

Canada blocks poultry, eggs from U.S. Northwest

Jan. 9, 2015 at 8:26 pm CST

Birds, eggs and poultry products from Washington and Oregon are being kept out of Canada after findings of high-path avian flu in a pair of backyard flocks in those states. The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Dec. 24 reported highly pathogenic (“high-path”) H5N2 avian flu in a backyard free-range flock […]

By Staff

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