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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.

Coronavirus concerns will have firefighters living differently and likely doing less.

Testing and forensic tracing of COVID-19 could have slowed the pandemic in its earliest days. But by the time anyone noticed, it was too late.

Unemployment claims have skyrocketed in Washington as the COVID-19 fallout continues.

The region is fighting to get ahead of the pandemic with recycled masks and ad hoc medicine.

School districts are putting together plans to keep teaching and feeding students through closures during the COVID-19 outbreak.

A push in the state Legislature could make 'net ecological gain' the new standard for building.

Your favorite takeout spot could go compostable-only under a legislative proposal.