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Western State Hospital has mostly stopped accepting jail transfers, leaving inmates with mental illness in limbo.

The state's communities of color now account for larger share of positive tests, due to slow testing, exposure at work and other factors. 

Delayed psych evaluations and hospital transfers are resulting in due process questions, and longer stays that may prove unconstitutional.

Disparities in public health funding leave some Washington counties less equipped to fight COVID-19.

Attorneys, advocates, public officials want to ban some felony bookings in King County, but judges and others object

The controversial tax proposal has found new life as unemployment soars and the city faces a $300M budget hole.

The ACLU of Washington calls its proposed initiative a "public health issue." But coronavirus complicates its path to the ballot.

Compared with the first week of March, applications are now 170% higher for cash assistance, double for food stamps and 60% higher for housing assistance.

Fresh off a strike and still without a contract, Swedish nurses say they’re struggling to keep up with the pandemic.

He had a slight cough. She could barely move. One Bainbridge couple struggles to get tested and healthy.