Category Archives: In The News

A group of Lake Washington High School seniors say it’s time to put opioid overdose medications like Narcan in every school to protect students amid the growing opioid epidemic. Their efforts began in September 2023, when their AP government class ...

This week’s election in Clark County was simple and straightforward. Unlike comprehensive November elections, voters were asked to decide no more than two issues on their ballots. But even as the votes are being counted on a variety of tax ...

A state work group wants to prevent vehicles that are lived in from being towed and increase the chances that homeless people in Washington can recover vehicles and belongings that are towed. The recommendations, which the state’s Senate Housing Committee heard ...

SEATTLE — A host of Washington state’s top elected officials, including Gov. Jay Inslee, Attorney General Bob Ferguson and Democratic Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal, pledged Tuesday to fight for reproductive rights amid the very real possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court ...

The Washington Legislature is using one of the largest infusions of federal money in state history to invest in a wide spectrum of attempts to reduce homelessness. Supported largely by surplus revenue, fewer debts and leftover federal funds from the ...

Lawmakers will consider multiple proposals this session to restrict access to guns in Washington. A Senate committee on Monday heard proposals involving gun rights, including one that would ban the manufacture, possession and sale of any assault weapons, and one that ...

For years, white-collar employees at Amazon.com Inc. have accused the company of using opaque “rank-and-yank” performance reviews to periodically cull its workforce. Now a proposed law in Amazon’s home state of Washington could make it harder for companies to terminate workers without explaining ...

In discussions on tackling the issues of homelessness, some have academic cred and political cred … and some have street cred. The problem is significant, both in size and in urgency. The City of Bellingham estimates that approximately 750 people are experiencing homelessness ...

For more than a year since the COVID-19 pandemic, Washington renters who have been unable to pay their rent have at least been safe from being evicted. As of this writing, bills for that unpaid rent will come due July ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gun owners can no longer display guns at the state Capitol in Olympia or near demonstrations anywhere in the state. Calling it “common sense” legislation, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, D-Washington, signed the bill Wednesday afternoon. It became ...