School leaders received numerous reports that former high school English teacher Curtis Johnston was “dating” a student but failed to intervene, complaint says
The proposal would expand the definition of illegal sexual contact between prison staff and an inmate to include kissing, groping
Washington is one of 12 states without enforceable state standards or oversight — that won’t change in 2026
Foresters in Western Canada and the United States have begun taking climate control matters into their own hands by relocating certain tree species threatened by global warming to new geographic locations.
Alicia Chang, Science Writer with the Associated Press, takes a thoughtful look at this controversial practice. Critics worry no one should play God with nature and that such re-introduction efforts, however well intended, may upset the natural balance in the new location. But proponents of proactive tree conservation say it would be irresponsible to let whole species die off because of deteriorating ecosystems. So far the approach is being tried with the Western larch, which grows in areas of British Columbia's southern interior, and is now being seeded just below the Arctic Circle. And in a similar effort, scientists are planting seedlings of Sitka spruce and Western red cedar from B.C. coastal rainforests into the dry ponderosa pine forests of Idaho.
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School leaders received numerous reports that former high school English teacher Curtis Johnston was “dating” a student but failed to intervene, complaint says
The proposal would expand the definition of illegal sexual contact between prison staff and an inmate to include kissing, groping
Washington is one of 12 states without enforceable state standards or oversight — that won’t change in 2026
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