After months of negotiations, there's still no real route to a deal in Olympia. As legislators prepare for a new session that starts next week, it is increasingly questionable whether the Legislature ...

WA relying on hotels, state offices to house foster kids more than ever. With nowhere else to go, the state’s most at-risk kids — and their caseworkers — are faced with limited options.

An effort has been launched to get a Ballard-University District light-rail line on the ballot. And won't Mayor McGinn be back with something to keep his vision for streetcars moving forward?

If you're downtown at noon, you might see a lot of people reading. Seattle likes to brag on its high levels of book reading. The Friends of Seattle Public Library have an event that should reinforce ...

The chief executives of both Washington state and the nation have laid out bold progressive agendas. But the question remains: If they're unpassable, is that really leadership? Barack Obama’s State of ...

Enjoy a few extra bites with your favorite guests, as host Rachel Belle shares fresh audio from the cutting-room floor.

America's last press council operates in Seattle. But even the Washington News Council is gasping for money. You can forgive John Hamer for feeling as if he’s the last of his kind. In a real sense, he ...

Unions aren't complaining about mill job loss; Vancouver's image still smarting despite giving rioters their comeuppance; Snohomish County politics get snarky; school knife attack raises concerns ...

Amid recent news of an orca mother carrying her dead calf and the reaction it garnered from humans around the world, Knute Berger reflects on our local connection with orcas. Namu, the first live, ...

A former legislator, who supported earlier income taxes, laments the way a combination of targeted new income taxes and political logjams would affect his family business. In the early 1970s I was in ...

Washington Saves will require businesses without retirement plans for employees to allow their workers an opportunity to contribute to an individual retirement account (IRA) via an automatic payroll ...

The new maps create a Latino-voter-majority district in the Yakima Valley that aligns with federal voting rights laws. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik sided with Latino voters who sued the ...