The bridge will start July 1 — the day after the current eviction moratorium was set to expire — and run through Sept. 30.

WASHINGTON – Starting in July, most American families are eligible to receive monthly payments of up to $300 per child that promise to cut child poverty by nearly half, but the White House and Inland Northwest tribes warned Monday that some of the children who need the benefits most could miss out unless their parents sign up through a new website.

On any given weekend, the border roads in the Northwest Washington towns of Lynden, Blaine and Sumas are filled with families looking to hug each other for the first time in months, celebrate birthdays or holidays, or even meet with immigration lawyers.

In nine years as governor, Jay Inslee has signed some 2,800 pieces of legislation and vetoed about 50, so you would think by now he’d have the process down of deciding which things should become law and which shouldn’t.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care Act as constitutional for the third time on Thursday.

Gov. Jay Inslee announced a lottery program for active-duty service members and veterans who have been vaccinated against COVID-19.

WASHINGTON – A week after a Senate panel showed bipartisan agreement on the need to let collegiate athletes earn money while in school, current and former student-athletes and a father who lost his son to a deadly college football practice urged the senators Thursday to expand the scope of a bill to ensure athletes’ rights to health care, quality education and more.

WASHINGTON – While attention at the Capitol remained focused on an uncertain effort to strike a bipartisan deal on new infrastructure spending, on Wednesday the Senate Commerce Committee voted overwhelmingly to approve a five-year, $78 billion transportation bill to boost the federal government’s annual spending on passenger rail, freight transportation, road safety and more.

Rising pay for tech workers and layoffs affecting many low-wage Washingtonians during the pandemic led to a 10% increase for the average worker in 2020, according to a state report released Tuesday. 

A trip away from home prompts a question with no universally accepted answer: To mask or not to mask?

WASHINGTON – A transportation funding bill approved by a House panel Thursday would send roughly $48 million to central and Eastern Washington for road and bridge improvements requested by lawmakers, but a disagreement among House Republicans about the new earmark process means North Idaho won’t see any such federal money.

WASHINGTON – The leaders of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation introduced a bill Thursday that would authorize $78 billion in federal spending over five years on the nation’s surface transportation systems, including significant increases over previous years’ spending on Amtrak, freight transportation and safety efforts.

WASHINGTON – Three Washingtonians took center stage Wednesday on Capitol Hill as Congress appears poised to set nationwide standards to let college athletes be paid through endorsement deals.

WASHINGTON – In a rare bipartisan vote following weeks of haggling and delays, on Tuesday the Senate passed a roughly $250 billion bill aimed at boosting the U.S. technology sector’s ability to compete with China, a priority shared by the Northwest’s Democratic and Republican senators alike.

The Washington Liquor and Cannabis Board is pursuing rules intended to regulate the sale of so-called "delta 8" products in state licensed marijuana retailers. The products can be made with plants that are currently legal under federal law, but there's uncertainty whether their extraction and sale violate federal and Washington laws. 

Russell Harvey, who appeared in King County Superior Court via video stream from a concrete room at the Monroe Correctional Complex, told Judge David Steiner that he’s not the same man he was when he was convicted of a string of robberies and sentenced to life in prison in 1998 under the state’s three-strikes law.

All Washington residents who receive a vaccine will be entered into a lottery with four weekly drawings of $250,000 and one final $1 million prize, Gov. Jay Inslee announced Thursday.