Three Washington state senators said the biting testimony Pierce County’s sheriff delivered during a committee hearing Thursday was threatening to legislators.
Sheriff Keith Swank delivered the remarks to the Senate...
Edmonds City Councilmember Will Chen on Friday announced that he will be a candidate for 32nd District State Representative Position 1 in this fall’s election. That seat is being...
Edmonds-Woodway High School senior Scarlett Luo joined several members of the Seattle nonprofit Make Us Visible Washington in testifying before the State Senate Wednesday about SB 5574. The bill would...
Umpqua Bank to the right and Terrace Station apartments in the background. Van Ry Blvd, Mountlake Terrace. Oct. 6, 2024. (Photo by David Carlos)Microsoft President Brad Smith leads some...
Yale Moon, a senior at Lake Washington High School, uses generative artificial intelligence in his free time to create fake images and videos.
He also sees other content that he...
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) is hosting an online open house through Tuesday, Jan. 20 on recommended improvements for people walking, biking and taking transit along SR...
People across Washington now have an easier way to get help for opioid use disorder, accordign to the Washington State Department of Health (DOH).
DOH said in a Wednesday news release...
Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday celebrated the “heart and spirit” in Washington communities ravaged by flooding in December, then pumped up fellow Democrats with calls for taxing millionaires and...
Swap out the cube farm for the forest, beach or desert this summer. Washington State Parks has opened its recruitment for seasonal park aides.
The park aide job is suited...
Last month’s heavy flooding inflicted at least $40 million to $50 million of damage on Washington’s highways, state transportation officials estimated to lawmakers Monday.
The state Department of Transportation has...
Washington state lawmakers begin a 60-day session today, in which a fiscal reckoning, flood recovery and their own reelections loom large.
They departed Olympia last spring, fingers crossed that a...
Washington State Ferries leadership will look back on 2025 and what’s to come in 2026 at two online community meetings at noon and 6 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21.
Each meeting...
Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson likely violated state laws by allowing his former top adviser, Mike Webb, to travel with him on a state plane to the Tri-Cities last summer,...
Emergency repairs that started Dec. 18 on a section of US 2 Stevens Pass (milepost 58-71) are complete and the section of road between the summit (milepost 64) and...
Democratic leaders in the Washington state Legislature said Friday they have no plans to hold hearings on two initiatives focused on parental rights of students in public schools and...
A who’s who from Washington state business and Democratic politics on Thursday extolled the virtues of alternative jet fuel and said the state would strive to become the nation’s...
Washington is set to receive $181 million in federal funding this year to boost rural health care amid drastic Medicaid cuts.
The hefty sum falls below what the Trump administration...
Blanche Barajas and Gary Bode have very different ideas about fluoridation. She’s pro. He’s against.
As city council members in Pasco and Lynden, respectively, they fought two of seven battles...
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) said it is scheduled to begin its months-long lane reductions on northbound I-5 to repair and repave the Ship Canal Bridge.
The work...
Supporters of two citizen initiatives, one focused on parental rights and another on barring transgender athletes from girls’ sports, moved closer Friday to getting those measures before the Washington...
