January 13, 2025, 6:05am Latest News
If you want to find a turning point in Washington state’s modern history of environmental protection and advocacy, just go back a few decades to the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was a time period marked by an upsurge in commitment to enact meaningful legislation, create new agency initiatives,… Read story
January 13, 2025, 6:05am Courts & Crime Updated 1 day ago
Governor-elect Bob Ferguson wants an extra $100 million in the state’s upcoming biennial 2025-2027 budget to hire more local police officers throughout a state that has the lowest cop-to-citizen ratio in the nation. Read story
January 13, 2025, 6:00am Health
Women living in rural communities have higher rates of menopause symptoms than their city neighbors, research from the University of Washington has found, underscoring the lack of health care access in those areas. Read story
January 12, 2025, 11:22am Latest News
Some 5,000 hospital health care workers walked off the job Friday as they picketed all eight Providence hospitals in Oregon, in what the state health workers union described as the largest health care strike in Oregon history — and the first to involve doctors. Read story
January 12, 2025, 6:05am Latest News
Q: It’s obvious that many drivers routinely exceed the speed limit in many areas, not just on freeways. So the next logical question is: How are speed limits determined? One would hope that there is some science, not just politics or customary historical norms, that inform the speed limit decision… Read story
January 12, 2025, 6:05am Courts & Crime
The landscape of street drugs looked a lot different when University of Washington research professor Caleb Banta-Green began his career in drug epidemiology more than 20 years ago. There were just seven illicit drugs he had to keep track of: cannabis, meth, cocaine, heroin, PCP, LSD and MDMA. Read story
January 12, 2025, 6:02am Business
A year after a panel blew off a 737 Max midflight, Boeing says mistakes like those leading up to the near-disaster on Jan. 5, 2024, won’t happen again. Read story
January 12, 2025, 6:00am Entertainment
On a warm July night, Sgt. Steve Ross saunters up to a half-dressed couple in a white Ford pickup, startling them near Everett’s East Marine View Drive. Read story
January 12, 2025, 6:00am Health
In what has become a routine event in rural America, a hospital maternity ward closed in 2023 in this small Oregon town about an hour from the Idaho border. Read story
January 12, 2025, 5:53am Latest News
Each weekday morning, Savannah Stewart commutes to her classroom on the University of Washington campus. Read story
