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Studies show charging child support extends family separations and can spur years of debt for parents in poverty. WA is pushing to change the practice.

Though state lawmakers approved the money last April to help undocumented immigrants, none has been distributed.

Hundreds of families owe the state a total of $1.1 million in outstanding detention fees, a practice made legal in WA 45 years ago.

None of the maps proposed by members of the state Redistricting Commission would create a Yakima Valley district where most eligible voters are Latino, a new analysis finds.

Some want the young teen who killed a man with a car to be tried as an adult. Here's why I think they're wrong.

The changes are part of a larger push to reduce barriers to entering the legal marijuana system.

Some advocates want the state redistricting commission to 'stop focusing on preserving incumbents’ and instead aim to keep communities of color together.

Echo Glen School is still one of the worst performing schools in the state. We’re not doing enough to change that.

Now, legislators think they have a fix to bring the public-option law they passed two years ago to every county. 

Poor outcomes and disproportionate impacts on kids of color have propelled a once-fringe idea into the mainstream in Washington state.