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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.

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

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.

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.