by Jake Goldstein-Street, Washington State StandardDecember 30, 2025 Tax hikes on big business and rental cars. Unemployment benefits for workers on strike. Those are just a few of the changes to state law taking effect […]
by Hal Bernton, Washington State StandardDecember 29, 2025 UNION GAP, Wash. — On a chilly fall morning, farmworkers fanned out through an orchard here to pick rose-hued apples from green rows of trees that flank […]
A bipartisan effort is underway to make permanent a program that allows rural fire districts to call in aircraft early during wildfires. An Eastern Washington lawmaker leading the effort on the newly filed House Bill 2104 says […]
A Washington lawmaker is raising alarms over skyrocketing administrative costs at the state’s public colleges-even as student enrollment continues to fall. John Sattgast reports from Olympia. State Representative Travis Couture, a Republican from Allyn, says […]
by Jerry Cornfield, Washington State StandardDecember 26, 2025 In early August, the leader of Washington’s Department of Fish and Wildlife had become so concerned with alleged behaviors of the citizen panel that he answers to […]
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