UNION GAP, Wash. --- On a chilly fall morning, farmworkers fanned out through an orchard here to pick rose-hued apples from green rows of trees that flank this central...
The Trump administration has ordered Washington’s last coal-fired power station to continue burning coal, just weeks before it was scheduled to shut down and convert to natural gas fuel.
This...
While overflowing rivers were beginning to recede across Western Washington on Friday, officials said it could be days or even weeks before residents can safely return to areas swamped...
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen toured the nearly completed Lynnwood Neighborhood Center (LNC) Nov. 21, months before the $26 million building is scheduled to open to the public.
The center is...
This week, the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) awarded more than $50 million in grant funding to four Northwest Washington transit agencies -- including $13.99 million to Community Transit --...
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday took up a Republican-backed challenge to counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
Depending how the justices rule, the case could be consequential for...
This report has been updated.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay about half of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, though benefits could take months...
Washington state federal workers and others who have been furloughed or laid off as a result of the federal government shutdown are invited to another free virtual webinar on...
Federal food benefits for Washington mothers and their babies at risk due to the federal government shutdown will continue into mid-to-late November, the state announced Thursday.
Funding from the U.S....
The roughly 300,000 Washingtonians who buy health insurance through the state’s online marketplace are set for a rude awakening as they begin shopping for plans.
That’s because premiums for individual...
A long-running court battle over how to balance protections for endangered fish with hydropower dams in the Columbia River Basin has resumed after a two-year pause.
Conservationists, anglers and clean...
Washington mothers and their babies will have access to food benefits through the end of the month, even though the federal government remains shut down, the state’s Department of...
States that routinely overpay or underpay food stamp recipients could now lose hundreds of millions of dollars in federal funding.
This has Washington officials trying to improve the state’s already...
U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen Friday met with members of the Verdant Health Commission and other local health care providers at the Verdant office in Lynnwood to discuss the impact...
The Trump administration Wednesday nixed funding for the Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Hub and several hundred other federally-subsidized clean energy projects in Democratic-led states.
Democratic politicians from Oregon and Washington state...
Medicare enrollees in Washington may soon need to get additional approval before undergoing some medical procedures, under a controversial new program the federal government will test in a half-dozen...
The federal government will begin turning some of its worst radioactive waste at the Hanford nuclear reservation into glass by an Oct. 15 legal deadline.
Last week, ambiguous signals out...
Top U.S. House Democrat Hakeem Jeffries traveled here Friday to decry rising health insurance costs he says are driven by recent actions from congressional Republicans and the Trump administration.
Low-income...
The federal government is unenthusiastic about cranking up its biggest cleanup project next month at the Hanford nuclear site in south-central Washington. But it will meet an Oct. 15...
Thousands of Washington Army National Guard members did not take part in last weekend’s drill, a money-saving move that appears precipitated in part by the Trump administration clawing back...
