Category Archives: In the News

It was a year ago this month when Haven Hepner, 10, was flown by medevac from her home in East Wenatchee to Seattle Children’s hospital. After a case of COVID-19, she had a headache and was very lethargic. When the ...

This is the second year that farmworkers are eligible for overtime. Right now, if they work more than 48 hours in a week, they get paid time and half. Next year, they’ll be the same as everyone else — anything ...

SEATTLE — A majority of healthcare workers in Washington state are burned out. According to a study released Monday, many healthcare workers plan to leave the profession in the coming years.

Washington state Democrats want to add abortion rights to the state’s Constitution, but they need Republican votes to make that happen. A resolution to amend the state Constitution is currently winding its way through committees in Olympia. The resolution would ...

People who perform female genital mutilation on a minor could face criminal and civil penalties if a bill now in the state senate becomes law. Female genital mutilation, or FGM, involves removal or injury to female genital organs for nonmedical ...

OLYMPIA – More than a decade after voters legalized marijuana under Washington law, some state lawmakers hope to end the use of testing for the drug as a condition for getting hired. Recreational use of marijuana is legal under state ...

Sen. Karen Keiser, D-Des Moines, was unanimously reelected in Olympia as Senate president pro tempore, a role she has served in since 2018. Keiser also serves as vice chair to the Senate Rules Committee and presides as chair when the ...

Cannabis is legal in Washington, but so is employment discrimination against cannabis users. A new bill in the state Senate looks to address that issue. The bill, Senate Bill 5123, was filed by state Sen. Karen Keiser, a Des Moines ...

What started as a fight in the states between e-commerce and brick-and-mortar retailers over how to address the epidemic of organized retail theft has become a joint lobbying campaign aimed at spurring Congress to action in the lame-duck session.  More ...