Category Archives: In the News

Dear Neighbors: Advocates from cities surrounding Seattle-Tacoma International Airport are shifting their attention to the next chapter in the battle over plans for a major increase in aircraft traffic at SEA. This follows an intense winter in Olympia. Representatives of ...

A bill that would revise Washington’s Wrongly Convicted Persons Act and streamline the compensation process for individuals who have been exonerated recently passed the House Committee on Appropriations. Senate Bill 5520, introduced by Sen. Tina Orwall, would remove legal barriers ...

The third deadline in as many weeks came Tuesday in the Washington Legislature. It meant the end of the road for numerous bills, including priorities on issues like homelessness, child welfare, gun safety and juvenile detention. It also signals a ...

Washington Democratic lawmakers have introduced a bill that would allow the Department of Health to fine private detention facilities if access is denied for a routine health inspection. “The bill before you is not about immigration laws; it’s about people, ...

The federal immigration detention center in Tacoma has come under fire in recent years following reports of neglect and suicide. Now, Washington Democratic lawmakers are making the case for the state to be able to fine the center in the ...

Washington lawmakers are looking at requiring assisted living facilities to be certified to take care of people with dementia. Senate Bill 5337, sponsored by Sen. Tina Orwall, D-Des Moines, would require the Department of Social and Health Services to create, ...

When the 988 crisis hotline launched in 2022, it was a bid to give people across the country a single easy-to-remember phone number, like 911, that they could call if they were suicidal or needed mental health help. Since then, ...

The Metropolitan King County Council unanimously chose state Rep. Tina Orwall to be the newest state senator in South King County, replacing Sen. Karen Keiser who is retiring in the middle of her term. Orwall will make the jump from ...

Before sexually explicit deepfake images of Taylor Swift circulated on the internet in late January, Issaquah High School students already had fallen victim to nude photos digitally altered by artificial intelligence. During Caroline Mullet’s first homecoming dance in September 2023, a ninth-grade ...

Washington state has effectively eliminated its extensive backlog of untested sexual assault evidence kits. Officials announced Thursday that more than 10,000 backlogged kits have now been cleared from evidence rooms across the state and submitted for testing.