At the close of last year’s Washington state legislative session, a key bucket of wildfire prevention funding was slashed nearly in half by lawmakers attempting to offset a budget deficit. If it wasn’t restored this year, the Department of Natural Resources was prepared to cut staff and elim…

With just three more sessions scheduled before state law mandates greenhouse gas emissions in Washington be at least 45% below 1990 levels, lawmakers took this year to close polluter loopholes in the state’s climate laws and advance a major bill to upgrade and expand the electrical grid.

State lawmakers and the governor are rethinking how Washington marks the legacy of Cesar Chavez following stunning accusations of sexual abuse against the transformational leader of the farmworker movement.

A pumped hydro-energy storage facility proposed outside of Goldendale in south-central Washington has taken a major step forward, even though, if constructed, it will damage or destroy cultural grounds necessary for to the cultural continuation of the Ḱamíłpa Band of the Yakama Nation, also …

Last March, Wilfredo Castillo pulled up to a nondescript business park in Tukwila, Washington, where he had been dozens of times for routine check-ins with his immigration case manager.