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A new poll shows Maria Cantwell is leagues ahead of her nearest opponent, Republican Raul Garcia, in the Senate primary race.
The state's longtime attorney general, Bob Ferguson, led in a new statewide poll ahead of the state's Aug. 6 primary.
Pierce County prosecutors say they won't filed criminal domestic-violence charges against Seattle Police Deputy Chief Eric Barden and question the alleged victim's credibility.
Washington Republicans are looking to raise cash for Trump, including with an August fundraiser headlined by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis in Clyde Hill.
The site northwest of Richland was the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor built during World War II to develop the atomic bomb.
Electricity prices will rise more steeply than originally forecast, but city officials say that hiking rates now will save residents from steeper increases in the...
A 2023 report found that enrollment at Washington's four-year universities fell by 10% between 2019 and 2022, and by 25% at community and technical colleges.
A new CEO has been hired to lead the King County Regional Homelessness Authority, which has been called an "impossible job." But officials want to...
Sunday was Seattle's 11th straight day with temperatures above 80. Monday promises to be another one in the 80s, and the National Weather Service's seven-day...
Washington State Patrol troopers and Pierce County sheriff's deputies had their hands full trying to capture a wallaby, a marsupial related to the kangaroo.