A leaked Trump administration budget proposal completely scraps a key Columbia River salmon recovery program as the administration seeks to slash the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ...

A year from now, Washington will launch the nation’s first full-scale effort to help the state’s workforce afford long-term care and services as they age. Etched into law in 2019, the public long-term ...

Law enforcement stopped a planned mass shooting last month at Three Rivers Crossing in Kelso, the Portland Office of the FBI reported Thursday during a press conference. A juvenile conspired the mass ...

Minutes after Ridgefield senior Danica Allen ran by far the best 3,200-meter race of her life at the 2A/3A/4A state championships Saturday, all she wanted to do was run.  And run.

Public outcry was swift and forceful after a U.S. House committee last month hastily approved an amendment directing the federal government to sell off more than half a million acres of public land. A ...

SEATTLE — Federal appeals court judges in Seattle on Wednesday questioned a Trump administration lawyer and Washington’s solicitor general over the president’s executive order restricting birthright ...

Michele Thomas, director of policy and advocacy for the statewide Low Income Housing Alliance in Washington, listens to a speaker during a rally advocating for lawmakers to adjust and pass House Bill ...

La Center Middle School unveiled a new student-created mural on Thursday, May 29, marking the completion of a months-long collaboration between students and the La Center Arts Council. The mural, now ...

Washington is showing promise in its work to combat the epidemic of drug overdose deaths that has ravaged the state and country in recent years. In 2024, fatal overdoses in the state dropped nearly 11 ...

With four of Woodland’s City Council seats contested this fall, a new group of challengers is speaking out about what they see as major failures by city leadership: a downtown full of empty buildings, ...

An effort to recall Gov. Bob Ferguson over his signing of a budget that includes roughly $9 billion in new taxes is likely a symbolic effort at best, given the high bar for removing a governor from … ...

Tens of thousands of low-income Washingtonians could lose federal food assistance if Republicans move ahead with plans in a bill the U.S. House passed last month. That’s according to estimates from ...