On Friday, Washington County revealed it is facing a $20.5 million deficit for the upcoming fiscal year starting on July 1. Officials have until late April to develop and share their 2025-26 financial ...

Yakima County, Wash. — The recent closure of Cow Palace Dairy Farm in Granger has left more than 100 employees facing ...

Local governments and insurers paid over $60 million to resolve and defend hundreds of jail-related claims in the last five years, a KING 5 investigation found.

The Senate has passed a bill that would result in more prison sentences for fentanyl traffickers. Democratic and Republican ...

A competing bill by state Sen. Jeff Holy, a Cheney Republican, would also create a $100 million law-enforcement-focused state ...

Victor Hamilton died last August after a short illness. During the four years after Nicki died, Chichester involved Hamilton as much as possible with her family’s life, including “Wednesdays with ...

TACOMA, Wash. — The Puyallup Tribe is working to learn more about the many native names of the mountain now known as Mount Rainier. It is doing this with the hope of eventually restoring the original ...

A letter U.S. President Donald Trump wrote to Iran’s supreme leader in an attempt to jump-start talks over Tehran’s rapidly ...

The Skagit Valley Tulip Festival will kick off on April 1, a sign spring is just around the corner in Washington state!

San Juan County will officially rejoin the Northwest Clean Air Agency on July 1. Island, San Juan, Skagit and Whatcom ...

The Washington attorney general claims in a new lawsuit that the sheriff in Adams County has been breaking state law by ...

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