Counties want to remake Washington’s approach to public defense, in which they shoulder almost all the costs of representing ...

A new policy by the state House comes amid a legal battle over lawmakers' efforts to exempt themselves from public records ...

The Board of Yakima County Commissioners formally voted July 29th, to place a nonbinding advisory measure on the November ...

The Yakima Health District reports Washington State’s first detection of West Nile virus in a mosquito sample this year.

The Washington State Department of Agriculture is seeking new bee collection volunteers as its Bee Atlas initiative enters ...

Washington stations, particularly those serving rural populations, are in jeopardy after Congress passed a bill clawing back funding for public broadcasting.

Eight people in Eastern Washington have been charged recently in federal court with illegally entering the United States after being deported, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of Eastern Washington ...

The decision grants judges new authority, raising concerns over judicial activism and its impact on criminal justice in ...

Across the nation, renters can get about 715 square feet of space for $1,500 per month, RentCafe found. That’s about 14 ...

U.S. House Democrats want to counter a move by Texas lawmakers to elect more Republicans. Washington state lawmakers say ...

But the state cannot require Archbishop Paul Etienne of Seattle, Bishop Joseph Tyson of Yakima and Bishop Thomas Daly of Spokane — the three who filed the suit — or any Catholic priest in Washington ...

Washington state’s population is still increasing — just not as quickly as it has in previous years. That’s according to recently released annual estimates from the state Office of Financial ...