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The wildfire season in Washington state is officially over.
In 2026, “more than 1,500 fires ignited and nearly 1 million acres burned across the state,” Public Lands Commissioner Dave …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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11/10/26
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Non-partisan legislative staff in the Washington state Senate estimate an accounting error at the Washington Health Care Authority could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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11/10/26
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson on Tuesday announced he has chosen Jimi Hendrix as Washington’s submission to the U.S. Mint American Innovation $1 Coin Program.
The program, first launched by the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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11/10/26
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One week after Washington voters approved an initiative to bar transgender girls from competing in girls’ sports, parents are suing to block it.
The legal challenge, filed Monday, argues …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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11/10/26
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Washington's Adult Protective Services was too slow to respond to thousands of reports of potential abuse, neglect or exploitation in fiscal year 2025, possibly leaving vulnerable adults without …
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By Kelsey Turner / InvestigateWest
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11/10/26
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Annual vendor spending at Washington’s Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) jumped $2.9 billion in four years, but a state audit assuring taxpayers that the surge was “valid” relied …
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Adam Herbets | The Center Square
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11/10/26
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Federal officials on Monday announced $10 billion in awards across all 50 states in the second year of the Rural Health Transformation Fund, grants created by Congress to bolster rural health in …
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Nada Hassanein / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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11/10/26
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Data center regulations are the event horizon that communities across the nation, including in Washington state, are calling on their elected officials to achieve.
The blue wave that …
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Aspen Ford / Washington State Standard
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11/10/26
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Chris Reykdal, who has led Washington state’s public school system through a period of financial and political upheaval, and a pandemic, announced Monday that he will not seek re-election to a …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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11/9/26
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Four Democratic state attorneys generals are suing the Trump administration over its plan to enact work requirements for people enrolled in Medicaid beginning in 2027.
In 2025, the massive …
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By Mia Maldonado / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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11/9/26
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Three large Washington school districts are preparing to sue the state, alleging it is once again failing to fully fund basic education.
School boards for the Lake Washington, Tacoma and …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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11/9/26
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Voters in one Washington state county want to keep electing the sheriff, even if they are not enamored with the one in the job today.
In another, they preserved their ability to know the …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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11/9/26
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Traveling from eastern Washington to Olympia for the state’s Legislative session just got easier.
SeaPort Airlines announced a new air service between Spokane and the state capital on …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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11/6/26
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A federal judge sentenced a Pierce County man to 15 years in prison Monday after he was convicted of multiple sex crimes involving children.
Randy Lee Young, 40, was arrested Nov. 16, 2024, and …
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By The Chronicle staff
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11/6/26
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The Trump administration can’t force Washington state election officials to set aside ballots from 400-plus voters alleged to be noncitizens, a federal judge in Seattle ruled Thursday.
The …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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11/6/26
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Joined by her wife, her closest aides and allies and the Democratic party apparatus that buoyed her to reelection Tuesday, Oregon Gov. Tina Kotek offered a prompt caveat: The path to improve the …
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Shaanth Nanguneri / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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11/6/26
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Oregonians on Tuesday overwhelmingly approved new, or renewed, taxes to fund rural firefighting departments and school districts.
Funding for local fire districts were on ballots in one quarter …
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Alex Baumhardt / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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11/6/26
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The Nature Conservancy, an international environmental nonprofit, just acquired 2,600 acres of timberland in central Washington.
Historically owned by industrial timber companies, the lands …
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By Aspen Ford / The Washington State Standard
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11/6/26
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Backers of Initiative 638 have officially announced that the measure has passed.
Opponents of the ballot measure to keep biological males out of girls’ sports are also conceding that the …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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11/5/26
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Washington’s governor met again with NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on Thursday to push the case for the return of the Seattle SuperSonics as league expansion here remains uncertain.
Brionna …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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11/5/26
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