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WASHINGTON — Congress has just one week left to approve the Trump administration’s request to cancel $9.4 billion in previously approved funding for public media and foreign aid, setting …
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By Jennifer Shutt / States Newsroom
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7/10/25
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Washington’s Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson and Senate Republican Leader John Braun have teamed up to persuade voters to let the state make stock market investments with tax dollars collected for …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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7/10/25
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WASHINGTON — A federal judge in New Hampshire Thursday issued a preliminary injunction against President Donald Trump’s executive order that would rewrite the constitutional right to …
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By Ariana Figueroa / The Washington State Standard
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7/10/25
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In what appears to be a first-of-its-kind lawsuit, big oil companies – including ExxonMobil, Chevron, BP and Shell – are facing a climate change wrongful death lawsuit from the family of …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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7/9/25
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson vowed Wednesday to use state dollars to plug a hole Republicans left by barring Medicaid funding for Planned Parenthood services in their sweeping tax cut and spending …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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7/9/25
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A rural central Washington hospital is warning of devastating consequences from the Medicaid cuts the Republican-led Congress passed last week.
For years, Astria Health has worked to find …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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7/9/25
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Washington aspires for its largest-in-the-nation fleet of passenger ferries to operate reliably and emission-free by 2050.
To get there, the plan is to convert six existing vessels to …
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Jerry Cornfield / Washington State Standard
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7/9/25
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A multi-state coalition is suing to keep Medicaid enrollment information away from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
Washington, Colorado, California joined 18 other states, almost all …
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By Elyse Apel / The Center Square
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7/8/25
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Washington’s Substance Use Recovery Services Advisory Committee, or SURSAC, is distancing itself from recent recommendations made by a subset work group that included having the state set up a …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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7/8/25
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Washington has launched a hotline to report hate crimes and bias in three of the state’s biggest counties.
Residents in King, Spokane and Clark counties can now report hate crimes and bias …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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7/8/25
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With many national parks facing huge backlogs of deferred maintenance — Yellowstone National Park alone is estimated to have more than $1 billion — the federal government is proposing a …
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By Micah Drew / States Newsroom
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7/8/25
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Two Democratic state lawmakers are set to clash in 2026 in one of the party’s strongholds in western Washington.
State Rep. Cindy Ryu has launched a campaign to unseat Sen. Jesse Salomon, …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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7/7/25
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A Longview mother is suing the Cowlitz County Coroner’s Office after being told months after burying her 2-month-old daughter that she was given the remains of a different baby.
The …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily news
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7/5/25
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As of Tuesday, a slew of new and increased charges, taxes and fees went into effect in Washington state.
This year’s legislative session saw lawmakers approve a tax increase package …
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By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
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7/5/25
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About 170,000 Washingtonians stand to lose food stamp benefits under the Republican megabill that passed Congress Thursday, state officials estimate.
Of those, 137,000 face obstacles from more …
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By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
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7/5/25
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John C. Hughes is, at root, a storyteller. As he marks the end of a nearly six-decade career that spanned hot-type newspapering on the coast to crafting the biographical record of Washington’s …
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By Paul W. Taylor / TVW
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7/5/25
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Though Washington State Parks, like other parts of state government, did not make it through this year’s legislative session with its budget unscathed, park visitors shouldn’t notice any …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / The Washington State Standard
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7/5/25
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, released a statement after the House Appropriations Committee voted down her cognitive acuity amendment to the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/3/25
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U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, along with Reps. Juan Ciscomani, R-Arizona, and Don Davis, D-North Carolina, recently introduced the bipartisan Rural Veterans’ Improved Access to …
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By The Chronicle staff
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7/3/25
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With the Fourth of July just days away, Public Lands Commissioner Dave Upthegrove urged caution on Wednesday after some 600 fires in Washington state have already started this season.
The …
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Tim Clouser | The Center Square
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7/3/25
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