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On Saturday, June 14, Tenino Arts — in partnership with the Tenino Stone Carvers Guild — will hold the Tenino Arts Stone City Art Festival in downtown Tenino from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. …
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By the Nisqually Valley News staff
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6/3/25
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It took a tie-breaking vote from Mayor Joe DePinto to decide who the newest Yelm city councilor would be. His vote during a Yelm City Council meeting on Tuesday, May 27, officially appointed Yelm …
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Jacob Dimond / jake@yelmonline.com
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6/3/25
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Yelm city councilors helped the city make strides toward an upgrade to Rhoton Road Northwest as they unanimously authorized Mayor Joe DePinto to make a professional services agreement with Parametrix …
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Jacob Dimond / jake@yelmonline.com
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6/3/25
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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 …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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6/2/25
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Kshama Sawant, the socialist who served a decade on the Seattle City Council, launched a “working-class, antiwar, anti-genocide” campaign Monday to unseat incumbent Democratic U.S. Rep. …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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6/2/25
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Eastern Washington school officials are urging the state to revoke the track titles of a transgender athlete from Spokane after winning another state championship on Saturday.
East Valley High …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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6/2/25
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The ink is hardly dry on Washington’s new budget and already legislative leaders are anticipating more fiscal uncertainty.
Democrats are focused on threats to health care access if …
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By Paul W. Taylor / TVW
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6/2/25
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Frank Chopp, a citizen activist who became the state of Washington’s longest-serving House speaker, spent a half-century relentlessly agitating for social change.
It seemed fitting then …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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6/2/25
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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 …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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6/2/25
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A Kodiak fisher has been sentenced to spend a year in jail for illegally shipping thousands of pounds of tanner crab, much of it infected with a parasitic disease, out of Alaska to Washington state, …
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By Yereth Rosen / Alaska Beacon
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6/2/25
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About 10 years ago, Wayne Fournier, Michael Cade and Aslan Meade had nothing but a napkin and a dream.
The trio met at the Sandstone Cafe & Quarry Bar in Tenino and discussed the future of …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylanr@chronline.com
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5/30/25
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For the rest of this year, Washington landlords are limited to rent hikes of 10% or less under a landmark new state law.
House Bill 1217, signed into law this month by Gov. Bob Ferguson, …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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5/30/25
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It was a tumultuous week in Seattle, replete with anti-LGBTQ+ events, counterprotests, arrests, national attention and a promise from the FBI’s deputy director to investigate “allegations …
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Josh Cohen / Cascade PBS
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5/30/25
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For the twelfth year in a row, Washington state has the highest excise tax rate on distilled spirits in the nation, at $36.98 per gallon.
According to a new report from the Tax Foundation, …
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Carleen Johnson | The Center Square
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5/30/25
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Elected officials within the Washington State Economic and Revenue Forecast Council have expressed reluctance to adopt a rate of assumed revenue growth that would presume an extra $1 billion in the …
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TJ Martinell | The Center Square
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5/30/25
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A new COVID-19 variant fueling a global rise in cases has been detected in Washington, but health officials aren’t too concerned.
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …
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Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
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5/30/25
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Tensions ran high at a recent Quilcene School Board meeting as the board debated and then adopted a resolution on a 3 to 2 vote to ban transgender athletes from competing in school sports.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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5/29/25
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Washington’s leading Catholic bishops filed a lawsuit Thursday contending the new state law requiring religious leaders to report child abuse or neglect, even when it is disclosed in …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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5/29/25
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Washington drivers really like their specialty license plates — and they are getting more of them.
Up to six new options will arrive this fall, including plates featuring Smokey …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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5/29/25
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A new report released by the Governor’s Salmon Recovery Office shows that several populations of salmon in Washington state have improved, but most still face extinction.
Of the 14 species …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/28/25
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