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Senate Minority Caucus Chair Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake, and Senate Deputy Minority Floor Leader Nikki Torres, R-Pasco, sit with colleagues while providing the Republicans&rsquo; response to Gov. Jay Inslee&rsquo;s State of the State address on the second day of the legislative session at the Washington state Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in Olympia, Wash.

Redistricting map meant to fix ‘systematic racism’ ousts 1st Latina senator in Central WA

Senate Minority Caucus Chair Judy Warnick, R-Moses Lake, and Senate Deputy Minority Floor Leader Nikki Torres, R-Pasco, sit with colleagues while providing the Republicans&rsquo; response to Gov. Jay Inslee&rsquo;s State of the State address on the second day of the legislative session at the Washington state Capitol, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, in Olympia, Wash.

March 18, 2024, 7:49am Latest News

An order issued Friday by a U.S. District Court judge in Seattle will unseat one of the most productive freshman lawmakers in the Washington Legislature. Read story

FILE - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., leaves the Speaker's office to walk to the House chamber, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, to attend the 14th vote for speaker of the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

House passes McMorris Rodgers’ bill that could ban TikTok if Chinese parent company doesn’t sell the app

FILE - Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., leaves the Speaker's office to walk to the House chamber, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023, to attend the 14th vote for speaker of the House, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

March 18, 2024, 7:47am Northwest

The House passed bipartisan legislation in an overwhelming vote Wednesday that would force the Chinese parent company of TikTok to sell the wildly popular social media platform or face a ban in the United States. Read story

Chum swim up Twanoh Creek looking for spawning grounds Friday morning in Skokomish, Washington on Nov. 3, 2023.

Removing Washington salmon barriers surges to $1M a day, but results are murky

Chum swim up Twanoh Creek looking for spawning grounds Friday morning in Skokomish, Washington on Nov. 3, 2023.

March 18, 2024, 6:03am Latest News

The coho salmon has already conquered the Ballard Locks fish ladder, swum 17 miles through urban Seattle waterways and powered through a tunnel under nine lanes of Interstate 405. Read story

Sen. Annette Cleveland, D-Vancouver, center, listens as Rep. Monica Stonier, D-Vancouver, right, speaks to the crowd during the 2024 Legislature Outlook at the Hilton Vancouver Washington on Friday morning.

Key health takeaways from WA’s 2024 legislative session

Sen. Annette Cleveland, D-Vancouver, center, listens as Rep. Monica Stonier, D-Vancouver, right, speaks to the crowd during the 2024 Legislature Outlook at the Hilton Vancouver Washington on Friday morning.

March 18, 2024, 6:00am Health

Health care affordability, workforce shortages and access to care remained top of mind for lawmakers during this year’s legislative session — and while several politicians and health care leaders say there’s still work to be done, they feel important gains were made in all three categories. Read story

Multnomah County, Ore., plants trees to honor 72 victims of 2021 heat wave

March 17, 2024, 5:12pm Northwest

Family members of some of the people killed by record-breaking heat in the Portland area three years ago gathered over the weekend to plant trees across Multnomah County in honor of its 72 victims. Read story

A proposal to reintroduce grizzly bears to part of Central Idaho has roiled tensions, with advocates saying the action is decades late and critics claiming it&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s a step toward gruesome maulings.(Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

Is grizzlies’ reintroduction in Central Idaho ‘a death sentence’ or restoring nature? Comments are torn

A proposal to reintroduce grizzly bears to part of Central Idaho has roiled tensions, with advocates saying the action is decades late and critics claiming it&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s a step toward gruesome maulings.(Karen Bleier/AFP/Getty Images/TNS)

March 17, 2024, 5:03pm Northwest

A proposal to reintroduce grizzly bears to part of Central Idaho has roiled tensions, with advocates saying the action is decades late and critics claiming it’s a step toward gruesome maulings. Read story

Washington Supreme Court: Bar exam will no longer be required to become attorney in state

March 17, 2024, 4:36pm Editor's Choice

The bar exam will no longer be required to become a lawyer in Washington, the state Supreme Court ruled in a pair of orders Friday. The court approved alternative ways to show competency and earn a law license after appointing a task force to examine the issue in 2020. Read story

Bodies of two men recovered from South Fork Skykomish River

March 17, 2024, 3:25pm Northwest

Rescue crews along a river in Washington on Sunday recovered the bodies of two men a day after they fell into the water at a popular swimming area known as Eagle Falls. Read story

A culvert of the list to replaced in Skokomish Park in Shelton, Washington on Nov. 3, 2023.

6 things to know about the costliest salmon recovery program in WA

A culvert of the list to replaced in Skokomish Park in Shelton, Washington on Nov. 3, 2023.

March 17, 2024, 6:00am Editor's Choice

Washington is spending nearly $1 million a day on a mammoth project to help salmon migration. Read story

As the Treasure Valley&rsquo;s population grows, some new medical practices open despite the shortage of physicians. And St. Luke&rsquo;s Health System just opened its four-story, 230,000-square-foot Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at 2619 W. Fairview Ave. in Boise. This is one of its rooms. (Sarah A.

Idaho needs doctors. But many don’t want to come. What that means for patients

As the Treasure Valley&rsquo;s population grows, some new medical practices open despite the shortage of physicians. And St. Luke&rsquo;s Health System just opened its four-story, 230,000-square-foot Center for Orthopedics and Sports Medicine at 2619 W. Fairview Ave. in Boise. This is one of its rooms. (Sarah A.

March 17, 2024, 6:00am Health

You’ve seen the headlines before: Idaho has a shortage of physicians. But just how short are we? Read story