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With the state facing a multibillion-dollar budget gap, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has ordered state agencies to freeze “most nondiscretionary and nonessential” hiring, service contracts, purchasing and travel.

Many affordable housing projects in Washington are funded in part by the state’s Housing Trust Fund.

If an earthquake and tsunami decimate the West Side, Eastern Washington would serve as an emergency operations center and an entry point into the state for supplies to respond to the disaster.

Rebekah Scott, a mental health counselor in Nampa, was late for rent for three months.

An influx of out-of-state campaign money paid for many of the negative ads in Idaho during the 2024 elections, Idaho Secretary of State Phil McGrane said Wednesday during the Associated Taxpayers of Idaho Conference in Boise.

President-elect Donald Trump says he wants to protect the U.S. dollar from the rise of an alternative new currency that does not yet exist and that few independent analysts take seriously.

Dec. 4—Several Indigenous families disenrolled from the Nooksack Indian Tribe — and subsequently served with evictions from Nooksack Tribal housing — opted to leave their homes voluntarily last week rather than face removal by Tribal law enforcement after a nearly decadelong dispute. The families have rented their Nooksack-owned homes since the late 1990s and early 2000s through the federal ...

Dec. 4—In a state that is covered in clouds about nine months out of the year, the dating scene could be quite mundane, but a new ranking says that it is actually quite the opposite. Western Washington is known for the "Seattle freeze," a term used to describe how difficult it is to meet new people in the region. According to the UW Medicine website, making friends in Seattle can be ...

President-elect Donald Trump on Wednesday announced he will nominate Paul Atkins, a former federal regulator who now advises financial firms and cryptocurrency companies, to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission.

President Joe Biden pardoned his son Hunter Biden on Sunday, averting a potential prison sentence on drug and gun charges. But Hunter Biden is far from the first member of the first family to be pardoned.