Monday, July 21, 2025 LOCAL ► From KUOW — Here’s where NPR programming is broadcast in WA — and...
Friday, July 18, 2025 STRIKES ► KOMO — Garbage strike continues as Kent, Bellevue offer new trash drop-off sites...
Thursday, July 17, 2025 STRIKES ► From My Northwest — Local residents fed up with Republic Services strikes —...
By REP. CHRIS REYKDAL It began like any other cut-off afternoon in Olympia complete with legislators, lobbyists, and staff scrambling to ensure that priority bills do,...
UPDATE (March 8, 2012) — The House has passed the Washington Filmworks renewal legislation and tit is headed to Gov. Cgris Gregoire’s desk for signature. OLYMPIA...
STATE GOVERNMENT ► From AP — Top lawmakers work toward budget deal— Lawmakers are hoping to strike a budget deal before the 60-day legislative session...
SEATTLE — With the slow recovery from the Great Recession still underway, unemployment in the United States remains at levels not seen for decades. Benefits dwindle;...
UPDATE — The deadline for film submissions has been extended to Friday, April 20. At its 2011 Convention, Washington State Labor Council delegates approved a resolution...
By SEN. NICK HARPER The life-blood of democracy is transparency. Transparency is the only way in which the democratic process can truly be representative of the...
SENATE COUP ► In The Olympian — GOP coup moves budget ahead in Senate as three Democrats defect— The blow-up killed a series of bills...
OLYMPIA (March 5) — Senate Republicans, with the assistance of three Democrats, staged a coup Friday night using an arcane parliamentary procedure to seize control and...
POLITICS ► Breaking news, from the Seattle Times — Norm Dicks announces retirement from Congress— U.S. Norm Dicks, the longest-serving member of Congress from Washington...
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