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A landmark bill in the state Legislature has split environmentalists, with some questioning whether it will reduce pollution in communities hardest hit by it.

Responding to federal inaction on pharmaceutical costs, lawmakers appear poised to give the state broad authority to buy or make generic drugs.

Efforts to expand the state’s green building rules would, among other things, phase out gas heat and appliances in most homes and businesses.

Use of Medicaid insurance has grown during COVID-19, but budget shortfalls make it harder for many to get this free care.

A bill sponsored by a forestry veteran would pay for guidance, grant money and other resources to help cities interested in improving urban forests.

‘Country club’ Republicans adrift. Rural Democrats bolting the party. Seattle liberals fired up. It’s very 2020.

Even as the consensus for prescribed fires has grown, the number of acres actually burned each year is shrinking.

Inmate death rates are rising even as prison populations shrink. State lawmakers are taking a closer look at the data and potential solutions.

Public records and interviews with officials and advocates reveal why cancer is a growing cause of death for an aging prison population.

While homicides and suicides in prison get the most press, Washington prisoners are more likely to die of untreated or undertreated illness.