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Washington state Supreme Court Justice Mary Yu will retire from the bench at the end of this year.
Yu, appointed in 2014, told fellow justices Thursday afternoon after informing Gov. Bob …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/12/25
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TACOMA — A former Washington state worker who admitted to embezzling nearly $900,000 in taxpayer funding to finance his gambling addiction was sentenced Thursday to 18 months in federal …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/12/25
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Northwest states, tribes and environmental groups will resume suing the federal government over its hydroelectric dam operations in the Columbia River Basin that have harmed endangered native fish …
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By Alex Baumhardt and Emily Fitzgerald / States Newsroom
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9/12/25
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Longview police arrested a man Wednesday night for allegedly assaulting an attendee at a candlelight vigil for the slain right-wing media personality Charlie Kirk, who was shot dead at a Utah college …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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9/11/25
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Pierce County Sheriff Keith Swank says he “won’t be silenced” despite coming under the microscope of the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission following a …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/11/25
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Standardized test scores for Washington public school students improved slightly this year, according to data the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction released Wednesday.
But the …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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9/11/25
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The man accused of murdering a 64-year-old woman and severely injuring an elderly man in a Longview home pleaded not guilty Tuesday afternoon in Cowlitz County Superior Court.
As Alexander Lee …
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By Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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9/11/25
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Bipartisan lawmakers reintroduced a bill designed to give immigrant farm workers an opportunity to pursue temporary legal status in the United States.
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act …
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By Andrew Rice / The Center Square
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9/11/25
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Convicted triple murderer Timothy Pauley could, at least technically, get another chance at freedom.
The Indeterminate Sentence Review Board is again considering his case because when former …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/11/25
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Thousands of Washington Army National Guard members did not take part in last weekend’s drill, a money-saving move that appears precipitated in part by the Trump administration clawing back …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/11/25
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A Spokane jury has ordered Washington state to pay $42 million to a woman the state failed to protect from years of childhood sexual abuse.
The striking payout in Jessica Hilton’s case …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/11/25
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Washington tribal leaders and environmental advocates are speaking out against the Trump administration’s plan to repeal protections for 2 million acres of national forests in the state.
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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9/10/25
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Despite pushback from the free-market Washington Policy Center think tank, the Washington State Department of Ecology is standing by its official rebuke of the Trump administration’s rollback …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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9/9/25
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Truck drivers traveling through Washington are getting new technological tools to help find open parking spots in rest areas and weigh stations on Interstate 5.
A new program starting this month …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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9/9/25
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Oregon leaders say they are prepared to litigate and legislate against President Donald Trump’s potential mobilization of the National Guard in Portland following his comments last week vowing …
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By Shaanth Kodialam / Oregon Capital Chronicle
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9/9/25
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The Pasco City Council will interview four candidates on Monday to fill a vacancy ahead of the next election. However, there’s still a chance the former mayor may return for another term.
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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9/9/25
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Small business owners in most of the U.S. feel more upbeat, according to the National Federation of Independent Business’ Small Business Optimism Index for August, which increased by half a …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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9/9/25
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The conservative political group that has been trying to bolster parental rights in Washington schools will try again.
Let’s Go Washington on Monday announced it will begin gathering …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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9/8/25
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, along with Reps. Jen Kiggans, R-Virginia, and Maggie Goodlander, D-New Hampshire, recently introduced the Warrior Right to Repair Act of 2025, which …
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By The Chronicle staff
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9/8/25
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has agreed to restore webpages containing resources for health issues that affect the LGBTQ+ community and information on opioid use by women to …
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Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review
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9/8/25
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