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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, …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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6/6/25
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As the manhunt continues for 32-year-old Travis Decker, suspected in the murders of his three young daughters in Chelan County, more information is coming out about his declining mental state and …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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6/5/25
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The tragic murder of three young sisters near Wenatchee is bringing new attention to the complexities of family court and judicial discretion in complicated custody and visitation plans.
The …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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6/5/25
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\Washington state auditors have started investigating whether local police departments are properly reporting officer misconduct.
As part of police accountability measures passed in 2021, …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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6/5/25
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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 …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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6/4/25
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The manhunt continues for the father of three little girls found dead Monday just outside Leavenworth in Chelan County.
Court documents obtained by The Center Square reveal the timeline starting …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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6/4/25
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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.
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By Alex Brown, Clark Corbin and Kyle Dunphey / States Newsroom
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6/4/25
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An investigation into a two-year-long string of military equipment theft from Joint Base Lewis-McChord, near Tacoma, turned up Nazi memorabilia, white supremacist literature and a cache of weapons in …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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6/4/25
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Every four months, Philippe Knab, the reentry and eviction defense program director for Washington’s Office of Civil Legal Aid, compiles a report on eviction trends across the state. Since …
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By Moe Clark/InvestigateWest
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6/4/25
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Democratic state Rep. Victoria Hunt will move from the House to the Senate in the Washington Legislature after the King County Council appointed her on Tuesday to replace the late Sen. Bill …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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6/4/25
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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 …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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6/3/25
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A Christian ministry in Yakima and the state of Washington are clashing in federal court over whether the religious group can decline to hire LGBTQ+ employees.
The Union Gospel Mission of Yakima …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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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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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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