AGRICULTURE & WATER
- Bill authored by Dye to clarify Washington water rights signed into law (The Lewiston Tribune)
- Eastern WA farmers to benefit from greater access to the state’s water resources (KWHT Radio)
BUSINESS, ECONOMY & LABOR
- Average Seattle household spends more than $3,000 a month paying bills: report (The Center Square)
- SEL officer named to Washington Employee Ownership Commission (Moscow-Pullman Daily News)
- EDITORIAL: Boeing labor contract is opportunity for overdue culture change (The Seattle Times)
CAP-AND-TRADE PROGRAM
CAPITAL BUDGET
CENSUS
COMMUNITY & FAMILY ISSUES
- Remembering the 43 victims of the Oso landslide (The Seattle Times)
- Oso: Life after America’s deadliest landslide | Podcast (KING TV)
- After 2014 Oso landslide, what did we learn about preventing disaster? (The Seattle Times)
- The art and science of landslide preparedness a decade after Oso (Washington State Standard)
CONGRESS
CORRECTIONS & JAILS
- WA youth prison employee charged with facilitating a fight in facility (The Seattle Times)
- County corrections chief receives vote of no confidence from guild. Sheriff stands by her (The News Tribune)
COURTS (FEDERAL)
- Supreme Court weighs how far federal officials can go to combat controversial posts on hot topics (AP)
- Tri-Cities man sent 10,000 child porn images. Feds say he won’t stay clear of kids (Tri-City Herald)
COURTS (STATE)
- Plan to ease caseloads for Washington public defenders could ‘bankrupt’ some counties (KING TV)
- Change in indigent defense caseloads could force counties to hire many more attorneys (The Columbian)
- COLUMN: A law protecting youth rights is blocking justice for Mobarak Adam’s family (Claudia Rowe/The Seattle Times)
CRIME & PUBLIC SAFETY
DRUG CRISIS
EDUCATION
- Tacoma school to lose beloved vice principal as district budget cuts take their toll (The News Tribune)
- OSD considers school closure alternatives after securing more funding from legislature (The Olympian)
- North Kitsap School Board approves superintendent’s resignation (Kitsap Sun)
- Workforce training center in Chewelah would give internships to rural high schoolers (The Spokesman-Review)
- Toppenish report raises more questions about Superintendent Cerna’s pay and benefits (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Washington State Charter School Commission intends to close troubled Pullman community montessori (KQQQ Radio)
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS & SERVICES
ENERGY & UTILITIES
- Environmental and progressive groups urge partial veto of Puget Sound Energy bill (Washington State Standard)
- Seattle area average energy prices: Gasoline, utility gas prices dip, electricity rises (MyNorthwest)
- Feds plan for 14,000-acre ‘clean energy’ park in Eastern WA called shortsighted (Tri-City Herald)
- A new surge in power use is threatening U.S. climate goals (The New York Times/The Seattle Times)
ENVIRONMENT
- Oil trains in the Gorge: Are we ready for a spill? (Columbia Insight/The Columbian)
- L&I cites King County landfill, calls for arsenic safeguards in worker safety plans (KING TV)
- Environmental concerns over Drax air quality permit prompt hearing (The Daily News)
FISH
- J.T. Wilcox knows chicken farming. But the state Republican WA lawmaker’s heart is with salmon (The Seattle Times)
- How one river in south Puget Sound tells the story of salmon’s plight (The Seattle Times)
- Salmon recovery proponents say several bills got away this legislative session (The Center Square)
HANFORD
HEALTH CARE & HOSPITALS
- A further autopsy on medical mergers (The Washington Observer)
- State Medicaid offices target dead people’s homes to recoup their health care costs (AP)
HIGHER EDUCATION
HOMELESSNESS
HOUSING
- Why are so many voters frustrated by the US economy? It’s home prices (AP)
- Less money, less house: How market forces are reshaping the American home (The Washington Post/The Seattle Times)
- Latest Tacoma apartment proposals seeking tax breaks include Lincoln District project (The News Tribune)
- EDITORIAL: Financial lifeline works to keep vulnerable WA youth housed (The Seattle Times)
IMMIGRATION
- Legislature passes more than $32 million in asylum-seeker aid (The Seattle Times)
- Man who died at WA detention site was in solitary for years, researchers say (The Seattle Times)
INSURANCE
- Automakers are sharing consumers’ driving behavior with insurance companies (The New York Times/The Seattle Times)
- COLUMN: As cars release driving data to insurance, is your driving my business? (Dave Ross/MyNorthwest)
LAND USE & PROPERTY RIGHTS
LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Area law enforcement agencies react to initiative that allows more police pursuits (Walla Walla Union-Bulletin)
- Spokane Prosecutor’s Office clears police officers of 2022 shooting (KHQ TV)
LEGISLATURE
LOCAL GOVERNMENT
MEDIA
- Reporter Shauna Sowersby honored by Washington Coalition for Open Government (The Olympian)
- OPINION: Lenfest Institute for Journalism CEO on saving and growing local news (Brier Dudley/The Seattle Times)
MILITARY & VETERANS
OTHER STATES
- Idaho considers a ban on using public funds or facilities for gender-affirming care (AP)
- EDITORIAL: Homelessness response strategy must be a plan of action not a wish list (The Oregonian)
REDISTRICTING
- Redistricting ruling stirs partisan uproar (Washington State Standard)
- New legislative map approved Friday brings big change for Yakima Valley (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- Redistricting map meant to fix ‘systematic racism’ ousts 1st Latina senator in Central WA (Tri-City Herald)
- Judge redraws WA’s legislative map after lawsuit over Latino voters (The Seattle Times)
- Court redraws Yakima Valley districts, displacing GOP lawmakers (The Washington Observer)
- Federal judge redraws legislative map in central Washington (The Center Square)
- Judge approves WA’s new legislative district maps after court battle over Latino voting rights (NW News Network)
- U.S. judge picks new WA legislative map, moving Latino district (Crosscut)
- Federal judge decides Washington’s new political map (Axios – Seattle)
- New legislative maps, necessitated by federal lawsuit, shift 20th Legislative District amid Republican fury (The Chronicle)
SPORTS
STATE GOVERNMENT
- WSP pays $1.4M to settle lawsuit alleging trooper targeted drivers of color (The Seattle Times)
- Initiative fees in Washington just caught up with 110 years of inflation (The Spokesman-Review)
TRANSPORTATION
- Filling up the gas tank is emptying the pockets of Washington residents (KING TV)
- WSDOT introduces new web page for travelers during busy construction season (KONP Radio)
- It literally cut Tacoma in two 60 years ago. Now the city has $1.3M to study fixes (The News Tribune)
- Questions ahead for tolling on Interstate 5 Bridge (The Columbian)
- $8 million more in funding secured for Hood River bridge replacement (The Columbian)
TRIBAL ISSUES
- More than $32M coming to WA tribes to adapt to climate change (The Seattle Times)
- Washington Indian boarding schools committee seeks public’s help with effort (Yakima Herald-Republic)
- OPINION: Food sovereignty seeks to return Tribal access to healthy, culturally important foods (Chantay Anderson, Nisqually Community Garden Program Manager/The Olympian)
WILDLIFE