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As Catholic hospital mergers increase, a Senate bill deals with   the care and decisions involved when a pregnancy goes wrong.

For a third time, lawmakers in Olympia hope to spur more biofuel and electric cars with new restrictions on greenhouse gases.

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.

During a decade when the region’s governments flouted their carbon emissions goals, activists who came together to stop exports surpassed their wildest expectations.

‘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.