Do Oregon parents get enough mental health support during pregnancy? Help us answer that question
We want to hear from you about how behavioral health care — or a lack of it — impacted a pregnancy
New mothers can stay with their babies at this Washington prison
The state’s prison nursery is one of only a few in the country intended to support incarcerated mothers amid a simmering debate on crime and drug use.
WA senators just released more previously redacted records
Leaders said they didn’t have more hiddeninformation, but memos show blacked-out emails to cannabis lobbyists and texts with redacted bill names.
How WA cities’ lobbying muscle shapes housing, public records bills
Lobbyists for the Association of Washington Cities flex the group’s influence in Olympia — including the ability to draft policy themselves.
With assault weapons ban, Washington enters a new era of gun reform
Ten years ago, the NRA was feared. But three major laws signed by Gov. Inslee show that Democrats are less reluctant to pass new restrictions.
How Washington plans to spend money from the new carbon-cap law
Lawmakers are looking to invest revenue from the Climate Commitment Act in electric buses, ferries and more clean-energy projects around the state.
As election deniers target the U.S. voter database, WA worries
Washington state isn’t pulling out of the Electronic Registration Information Center, but the impact might still be felt here.
WA's government transparency committee is ready to call it quits
As their fight for government transparency becomes increasingly difficult, the Washington Sunshine Committee is considering disbanding.
‘Haphazard and unorganized’: GOP lawmakers react to Dems’ secrecy
The Washington Senate's Republican minority leader said he'd welcome an independent investigation into Democrats’ use of ‘legislative privilege.’
Some WA lawmakers are sidestepping the state's Public Records Act
Despite a 2019 state Supreme Court ruling, legislators are shielding documents by claiming a loophole of 'legislative privilege.'
WA's secretary of state race is a special election — in more ways than one
It pits two experienced candidates, Democrat Steve Hobbs and nonpartisan Julie Anderson, for a job that has increasingly focused on the security of elections.
Shelved report details 14 COVID deaths inside Washington prisons
Six of those who died between June 2020 and Aug. 2021 were not adequately evaluated after they requested to be seen for symptoms, according to an unreleased state watchdog report.