Category Archives: In the News

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Large businesses operating in Washington state would be required to disclose efforts to eradicate human trafficking within their supply chains under a proposed Senate bill. SB 5541 would require every seller and manufacturer with more than $75 million ...

Proposed legislation in the Washington State legislature would create a cold-case investigations unit through the Attorney General’s Office for missing and murdered Indigenous women and people. Cold case units or squads are responsible for working unsolved homicides which may include ...

Washington could stop businesses from pricing products differently simply because of the gender they’re marketed to — like those pink razors that are basically the same as their blue counterparts but cost more. That’s what Senate Bill 5171 would do, says ...

OLYMPIA — Earlier this month, Charlene Tillequots attended a funeral service for her close childhood friend for the second time. The first service was decades ago. At the time, the friend had been missing for seven years and there was ...

A group of Kirkland high school students say it’s time for Washington to join New York and California in making gender based pricing illegal. Gender-based pricing costs women approximately $2,300 per year on average. According to a New York Consumer Affairs ...

For months before the start of the state legislative session, a oft-stated priority for law enforcement agencies and local public officials have been changes to a 2021 law — among a slate of policing reforms adopted that year — that ...

If you watch TV news or consume any local social media about crime in Washington, chances are you’ve seen a video like this, where the cops blame a 2021 law restricting their authority to chase down suspects for a rise in ...

A bill introduced by Democrats in Washington’s state legislature would prevent private health data that is collected by apps – particularly those that track menstrual cycles – from being shared without consumers’ consent.

Social media lit up with an ominous warning last year, after the Supreme Court rescinded the constitutional right to an abortion: Stop using period tracking apps. That’s because health information people provide to period tracking apps and other health sites ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Born into poverty in southern India, Rani Hong was 7 years old when she was sold into slavery. “They did not see me as a seven-year-old child. They saw me as a piece of property to be ...