In Malone, N.Y., a town of 12,000 with three state prisons 20 miles from the Canadian border, the five-day-old wildcat strike by prison guards leading to the deployment of the National Guard has ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson opted against committing troops. His office says it was seeking ways to get ahead of the president potentially federalizing the state’s Guard. Top aides in Washington Gov.

And the last time Washington’s National Guard troops were sent specifically to the state’s northern border was in the early 2000s, Shagren said. In that case, the president federalized the ...

Top aides in Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson’s office debated plans earlier this year to send 200 National Guard troops to the Canadian border to assist with the Trump administration’s attempts ...