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As concerns rise about the potential for federal influence over the results of next week’s midterm elections, many voting experts and advocates remain confident that the nation’s highly localized systems of administering and counting votes will persevere.
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On a crisp Saturday morning, Washington politicians and community members gathered inside an auditorium at Highline College in Des Moines for a discussion on the pain points facing the state
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Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson at his State of the State address on Jan. 13, 2026. Ferguson did not discuss the budget cuts he's proposing in his speech but they've stoked plenty of testimony in the first days of the 2026 legislative session. (Photo by Bill Lucia/Washington State Standard) The pivotal U.S. Senate race in Alaska is now embroiled in threats from the president and probes from the state’s governor over a candidate appearing on the ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent.
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It took two years for Chrissy Teigen to realize she’d had an abortion and not a miscarriage, longer to understand what went wrong in her pregnancy, and not until this week to realize she hadn’t fully grappled with it emotionally.
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The owner of the only remaining coal power plant in the Pacific Northwest is doggedly proceeding with a plan to extend its life by converting to natural gas fuel over the next two years. TransAlta Corporation got political support, signed a utility to take the electricity and is accumulating the necessary permits to remodel the…
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Medicaid recipients who are disabled or have a chronic illness will not have to prove they are unable to work to be exempted from new work requirements that take effect next year, a federal judge ruled Thursday.
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The Trump administration cut naturalization sharply over the past year, leading to accusations it’s holding back hundreds of thousands of people who might have voted in the midterms.
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As wildfires spread, makers of concrete and steel want us to rethink what our homes are made of
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Room 219 at the Letty Owings Center in northeast Portland doesn’t look like much more than a cramped dorm room, but it’s where Ashley Amorim spent her first night with Jeremiah, the smiley, blue-eyed baby who she said gave her the motivation to change her life.
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Initiatives 001 and 638 on statewide ballots were both sponsored by political group Let’s Go Washington. That group also sponsored the other statewide initiative this year to repeal the millionaires’ tax .