Nine days remain in the 2026 legislative session in Olympia, and the proposed income tax has yet to reach the House floor and ...

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 detainees … ...

Around 12:50 p.m. Feb. 19, the Volcano Rescue Team (VRT) was dispatched to a reported avalanche burial near Shoestring Gully, at about 5,800 feet on Mount St. Helens. The incident involved a … ...

Washington state and the federal government are considering actions to lower the ever-increasing risk of a container ship striking Longview’s Lewis and Clark Bridge , potentially causing the … ...

King County and Seattle have recently taken steps to hamper any possible federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement activities in their jurisdictions, specifically to limit enforcement on local … ...

Democratic lawmakers in Washington state are moving closer to repealing a 2025 law that raised the state’s top estate tax rate to 35%, the highest in the nation. Senate Bill 6347 , introduced … ...

A Kelso man was sentenced Thursday to five years for striking and killing a pedestrian in 2025 . Larry M. Hole, 46, said the collision was "100% avoidable," and sobbed openly in court. He … ...

For Rivian and Lucid, path finally emerges for direct-to-consumer car sales in Washington Legislation in the state Senate would put the companies on the same footing as Tesla; it has support from auto ...

No-cost insurance coverage for vaccines in Washington state will soon hinge on a recommendation from the Department of Health rather than federal guidance under a bill passed by the Legislature on … ...

Legislation to update how Washington state handles childcare licensing and to provide fraud protections and accountability within the Department of Children, Youth & Families is apparently dead this ...

Republicans in the Washington State House of Representatives pushed back with all they had on Saturday, offering amendments and objections to majority Democrats' supplemental operating budget .

A Washington state bill that would dissolve a pension plan created in the 1960s and closed to new members in 1977 took a barrage of criticism during a Feb. 26 public hearing in the Senate Ways & … ...