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With roughly 20 state lawmakers vacating seats in the Washington Legislature, many new faces will soon arrive in Olympia.
Some outgoing legislators are retiring, others are seeking different …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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8/25/26
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Victor Garcia, an educator, hunter and fisherman appointed to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission last year, has died.
The Department of Fish and Wildlife announced his death …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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8/25/26
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With just over two months until the November midterms, the U.S. Supreme Court gave way Monday for President Donald Trump to have a hand in regulating mail-in ballots nationwide, a voting method he …
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By Ashley Murray / States Newsroom
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8/24/26
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A Washington state marriage and family therapist will have another opportunity to challenge a 2018 Washington law that his attorneys contend censored his speech.
In 2018, Washington state …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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8/24/26
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The head of Washington’s newest juvenile detention center was ousted after an investigation into allegations he sexually harassed an employee.
The ex-staffer accused Kendrick Rochelle of …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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8/24/26
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A federal court ruling out of Idaho has potential implications for exceptions in abortion bans nationwide and could eventually end up before the U.S. Supreme Court to decide.
U.S. District Judge …
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Kelcie Moseley-Morris / Stateline
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8/23/26
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Pressed by the federal government, Washington is making a big change in its new law extending unemployment benefits to striking union workers.
Starting Sunday, workers involved in labor disputes …
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Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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8/22/26
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Law enforcement agencies across Washington will conduct high-visibility DUI patrols beginning this week and continuing through Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7.
The patrols will focus on drivers …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/21/26
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The former Seattle Times sportswriter who resigned his position this week because the paper spiked his column about two female student-athletes opposed to competing against biological males has some …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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8/21/26
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Poll results released Thursday show Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson's favorability is quickly declining.
The poll released by the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce shows that Wilson’s …
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Randy Diamond | The Center Square
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8/21/26
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As fires scorched through a record 2.5 million acres this summer, mostly in eastern and central Oregon, many of the state’s transportation maintenance crews traded patching potholes and cleaning …
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Mia Maldonado / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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8/21/26
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Deaths and serious injuries of children involved with Washington’s child welfare system last year were even higher than record levels the state previously reported, according to new data.
In …
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8/21/26
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A citizen activist lost his bid Thursday to keep a one-sentence statement off ballots that summarizes how an initiative to repeal Washington’s new income tax on high earners would affect the state …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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8/20/26
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Cami Feek is no stranger to state government. Every level of it.
She kicked off her career in 1996 as a mailroom clerk typist for the Department of Financial Institutions. She’s worked at …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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8/20/26
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One of the most destructive invasive pests in the nation has arrived in southern Washington, posing a grave threat to ash trees.
State officials confirmed the presence of the emerald ash …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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8/19/26
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A Puyallup high school wrestler who said she was sexually assaulted by a male who identifies as female during a match last December is asking a federal judge to step in.
Kallie Keeler, who now …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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8/19/26
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U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins this week announced the U.S. Forest Service has filed a proposed rule to rescind the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a motion that, if …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/19/26
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Environmental and public interest advocates expressed alarm on Wednesday following the Washington state Department of Ecology’s announcement supporting a new natural gas power plant on the site of …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/19/26
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Nearly 700,000 acres have burned across Idaho so far this year, and state officials are predicting fire risk will remain high through September.
As the costs to fight fires increase, state …
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Laura Guido / Idaho Capital Sun
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8/19/26
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In the summer of 2023, a third of the fire engines owned by the fire department in Kansas City, Kansas, were unusable. Five of 15 pumper trucks were out of commission, and the department was waiting …
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Anna Claire Vollers / Stateline
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8/19/26
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