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Work underway to create new WA housing agency

By Jake Goldstein-Street - April 13, 2026

Sarah Beckman, left, stands with other staff members of Ohio’s Hamilton County Quick Response Team in an undated photo. The team helps people who use fentanyl get treatment. New research shows that Medicaid expansion gave many more people access to the opioid addiction treatment medication buprenorphine. (Photo courtesy of Hamilton County Quick Response Team)

Medicaid expansion boosted access to opioid addiction treatment medication, study says

By Shalina Chatlani - April 12, 2026

Trump approves disaster declaration for WA flooding

By Jake Goldstein-Street - April 11, 2026

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Reykdal: Washington behind as lawmakers study school phone limits

BY Paul W. Taylor - April 11, 2026

Forest Service plans to close two research labs in WA

BY Aspen Ford - April 10, 2026

New WA sheriff standards law faces another lawsuit

BY Jake Goldstein-Street - April 10, 2026

Gas prices soar by 21% as government inflation figures reflect Trump’s war on Iran

BY Ashley Murray - April 10, 2026

New Amtrak trains coming soon to Pacific Northwest, but not in time for World Cup

BY Tom Banse - April 10, 2026

CDC’s 2025 data shows birth rates continuing to slide

BY Kelcie Moseley-Morris - April 9, 2026

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Salmon are not to blame for Bonneville Power Administration failing to meet its responsibilities

BY Nancy Hirsh and Liz Hamilton - April 8, 2026

Why federal efforts to get sensitive voter data face resistance

BY John J. Martin - April 7, 2026

Want equal pay and protection from harassment? Put more women in leadership

BY Faye Guenther - April 3, 2026

Gov. Bob Ferguson has a critical choice to make on data centers

BY Josh Levi - March 31, 2026

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‘Our new normal’: WA confronts another year of drought

BY Aspen Ford - April 8, 2026

Despite court ruling, WA still blocked from inspecting immigrant detention center

BY Jake Goldstein-Street - April 8, 2026

Heywood asks WA Supreme Court to allow referendum effort on income tax

BY Jerry Cornfield - April 3, 2026

Chair of WA House’s powerful budget-writing committee won’t seek reelection

BY Jake Goldstein-Street - April 1, 2026

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An election worker hands out “I Voted” stickers at the Main Library in Salt Lake City on Election Day, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)

How Trump’s SAVE America Act could make it harder for married women to vote

BY Jonathan Shorman - April 9, 2026

Rep. Glenn Ivey, D-Md., leads a press conference at the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday, April 9, 2026, surrounded by House Democrats who were speaking out against the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran. (Photo by Ashley Murray/States Newsroom)

US House Democrats call for Congress to come back into session for Iran war debate

BY Ashley Murray - April 9, 2026

Frustration boils up after Ferguson vetoes two tiny grants in WA budget

BY Jerry Cornfield - April 9, 2026

Court battle ignites over Washington’s new income tax

BY Jerry Cornfield - April 8, 2026

Boxes of allegedly unreported pollock roe harvested by the catcher-processor vessel Northern Edge are stacked together. The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Waesche seized approximately 5.4 metric tons of allegedly unreported pollock roe from the catcher-processor vessel. The Coast Guard crew boarded the Northern Eagle on March 26, 2026, about 17 miles north of Dutch Harbor and stayed with vessel as it sailed to that Aleutian Island port. In all, 11,524 boxes of pollock roe were offloaded, which was 241 boxes more than what had been declared in the vessel's production report, according to the Coast Guard. (Photo provided by the U.S. Coast Guard)

Seattle-based company accused of fishing violations in Alaska’s Bering Sea

BY Yereth Rosen - April 8, 2026

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