Oregon prosecutors said she didn’t protect her baby. She says she was surviving abuse.
Even in states like Oregon without an explicit “failure to protect” law, abused mothers can face prison time
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One thing the pandemic hasn’t changed: State laws protecting parents who deny their children medical care for religious reasons
How faith-healing exemptions have survived not only in deep red Idaho, but reliably blue Washington state
Rural WA wants in on state highway, health and housing dollars
Here's what leaders in rural cities and counties want from federal recovery funds and what they're asking state legislators to prioritize this session.
WA legislators prepare for long list of climate change bills
Lawmakers could look at more than a dozen climate proposals addressing carbon reduction and other environmental issues.
Concerns about WSP search rates persist
The Washington State Patrol this month announced a study had found “no systemic agency bias” in its stops and searches. But that’s not the whole story
The Real Costs of Child Care in America
In Washington state and across the country, the financial realities of child care are like mismatched puzzle pieces jammed together
Behold Washington’s ‘new beginning’ in its fight against climate change
As the dust settles in Olympia, the state finally has embraced cap and trade, electric cars and environmental justice.
After a turbulent year, Washington state poised to ban guns at protests, Capitol grounds
Despite gun-rights opposition, lawmakers in Olympia are working to deter ad hoc ‘patrols’ and armed protests
Can elections procedure be altered to make sure all voters are treated equally?
Officials seek solutions to possible bias in examining voter signatures
Outdated sewage treatment is suffocating fish in Puget Sound
Inadequately treated human waste from 79 sewage treatment plants is an important and growing cause of a breakdown in the Puget Sound ecosystem that is causing unnatural explosions of jellyfish and smelly algae, among other effects.