by Emily Fitzgerald, Washington State StandardOctober 16, 2025 A long-running court battle over how to balance protections for endangered fish with hydropower dams in the Columbia River Basin has resumed after a two-year pause. Conservationists, […]
by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State StandardOctober 16, 2025 Two months after its severing, a vital transportation link for small cities in two of Washington’s largest counties will reopen Friday. The White River Bridge connecting eastern […]
by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State StandardOctober 16, 2025 State transportation officials say they are making the limited dollars for highway and bridge preservation stretch as far as they can — but it’s not far enough. […]
OLYMPIA – As the federal government shutdown continues, more federal workers are applying for unemployment benefits with the Employment Security Department. Through Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1,184 federal workers (about 79 per day) in Washington state applied […]
by John Stang, Washington State StandardOctober 15, 2025 Sixteen years after the original deadline, the Hanford nuclear reservation in south-central Washington state is finally converting its worst radioactive waste into a benign glass. Glassification began […]
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