Washington’s Catholic leaders sued state leaders and county prosecutors Thursday, alleging that a controversial new law requiring priests to break the confessional seal to report suspected child ...

Woodside is facing fresh scrutiny over an oil spill at a decommissioned oil and gas project north of Exmouth. The national regulator is investigating the spill, in which about 16,000 litres of ...

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. Russell Johnson, the lead pastor at Pursuit NW, is demanding Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell to resign after the disruption in Cal Anderson Park ...

From Monday, pet shops that want to keep selling dogs can only do so if they get them from a rescue centre, having got a permit from their local government. But as of Friday, no pet shop had ...

There were nearly $6 billion in cuts in the budget, including reduced spending in areas such as behavioral health, higher education, and health care – in the form of some program expansions ...

Something unusual happened when attorney Sofia Velling went to a Seattle immigration court hearing Tuesday with an asylum-seeker. Out of the blue, she said, a U.S. Immigration and Customs ...

Washington's new budget is set. The governor signed it into law Tuesday, making only minor changes and avoiding a special session for lawmakers. Gov. Bob Ferguson, a Democrat, left the roughly $78 ...

Google announced during Google I/O 2025 that it’s rolling out Project Mariner, the company’s experimental AI agent that browses and uses websites, to more users and developers. Google also ...

Electoral Commissioner Robert Kennedy will not return to the role until at least 2026 with an acting commissioner installed in his stead. Kennedy took unplanned leave at the end of March following ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson has signed House Bill 1296, which guts the previously passed Parents’ Bill of Rights. Parental rights advocates are livid. Democratic representatives argued that the previous ...

(The Center Square) – Gov. Bob Ferguson repeatedly said he would look for budget savings and efficiencies before agreeing to raise taxes on Washingtonians, but on Tuesday – the deadline for doing so – ...