Fifteen states on Friday sued the Trump administration to prevent millions of dollars in cuts to school-based mental health funding.
The new lawsuit is part of an ongoing legal battle...
The private company that runs a Tacoma immigrant detention center must allow state inspectors inside after years of refusing, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
But U.S. District Court Judge Benjamin...
Federal authorities on Tuesday threatened Washington state election officials with criminal prosecution if they fail to prevent noncitizens from voting in this year’s federal elections.
In a seven-page letter, Assistant...
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that states can count mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, a blow to the Trump administration and some Republican states that had...
The state of Washington on Tuesday asked the U.S. Supreme Court to accept a challenge against the state’s political maps, then remand it to a lower court to determine...
A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday ruled the Trump administration wrongfully terminated a $4 million grant for Washington meant to provide services for new migrants.
The case is somewhat...
Cuts that Republicans in the U.S. House are seeking to the nuclear cleanup at Washington’s Hanford site would go deeper than steep reductions the Trump administration proposed.
Hanford’s fiscal 2026...
Puget Sound Energy is adding a wind farm in Klickitat County to its clean energy portfolio, the latest move in the utility’s transition to become greenhouse gas neutral by...
A crowded Aug. 4 primary election is on the horizon as candidates representing South Snohomish County submitted their filings to run for federal, state and local elections Friday. Races...
From the Rockies to the Cascades to the Sierra Nevada, mountainsides across the West are sparsely covered by the snow that usually blankets the high country well into the...
A new effort to force states to affirm the Trump administration’s views on DEI, transgender athletes and immigration when signing contracts with the U.S. Forest Service is threatening millions...
The U.S. Forest Service’s plan to close scores of research stations could threaten the nation’s wildfire readiness, many foresters fear, and erode decades of work to understand timber production,...
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Rows of colorful rubber ducks stare out from the shelves of a small store tucked inside a mall in British Columbia,...
The strained Amtrak Cascades rail service is on track to have limited capacity to carry the crowds expected to descend on the Pacific Northwest for the upcoming men’s World...
Zahid Chaudhry, a U.S. Army veteran, was held in the Northwest ICE Processing Center for four months last year.
He was released in December. While inside, he saw multiple fellow...
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen announced this week that more than $10.1 million in federal funding for local projects in Northwest Washington has been approved as part of the Fiscal...
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson and Democrats in the state Legislature are divided over how to use the expected revenue from a newly proposed income tax on higher earners.
Lead lawmakers...
Congress last week approved a $3.2 billion budget for the Hanford nuclear reservation’s cleanup in fiscal 2026 — a more than $200 million increase from the prior two years.
That...
UNION GAP, Wash. --- On a chilly fall morning, farmworkers fanned out through an orchard here to pick rose-hued apples from green rows of trees that flank this central...
The Trump administration has ordered Washington’s last coal-fired power station to continue burning coal, just weeks before it was scheduled to shut down and convert to natural gas fuel.
This...
