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Judge denies attempt by Trump’s DOJ to exclude 20,000 California ballots from vote count
A federal judge on Wednesday denied a U.S. Department of Justice request that would have forced California to not count the ballots of 20,000 voters the Trump …
WA’s election chief says federal noncitizen voting list includes citizens
Washington’s top election official is calling on federal authorities to provide more evidence that the state’s voter rolls include hundreds of noncitizens, as …
Sean Robinson takes helm as editor of Washington State Standard
Veteran journalist Sean Robinson has joined the Washington State Standard as editor-in-chief, States Newsroom announced. “We’re happy to have Sean on board lea…
WA advocates renew calls for state to limit feds’ access to license data
SEATTLE — Chris Megargee volunteers at a Shoreline Home Depot to help day laborers frequently targeted by federal immigration authorities. As part of the adopt…
Washington 9th graders perform better with new program, but funding isn’t guaranteed
Across Washington state, schools rolled out a support system designed to help high school freshmen over the last few years. In the Ninth Grade Success initiati…
Feds allege over 400 noncitizens vote in WA; Hobbs disputes data
The top federal prosecutor in Seattle claimed on Monday that more than 400 noncitizens have been voting in Washington, as the Trump administration’s crusade ag…
These measures on WA ballots could shake up local government
Voters may evict the sheriff from office in Pierce County, make Snohomish County Council seats nonpartisan and bar residents from serving on the Everett City C…
Nuclear waste made workers sick. Despite a law meant to help, the DOE keeps fighting their claims.
This article was produced for ProPublica’s Sustainability Desk, a project of the Local Reporting Network, in partnership with Cascade PBS and co-published by K…
A ‘constitutional sheriff’ divided a county. Will the next sheriff keep his ideas alive?
A "constitutional sheriff" divided rural Klickitat County. The men running to replace him are trying to decide how to deal with his legacy.
In Bend, across state, voters have approved hundreds of millions for school safety as shootings rise
More than 100 of Oregon’s 197 school districts have asked voters in the past eight years to agree to local property tax increases to raise money for school saf…
More than 700,000 WA state voters have cast ballots
Washington state voters are getting the message: Don’t wait to turn in your ballots. As of Friday afternoon, 705,231 ballots had been returned with 66.4% arriv…