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With the filing deadline for 2024 less than two months away, a hearing was held Friday to examine the redrawn Central WA boundaries.

Yet lawmakers failed to advance most housing initiatives. From AI task forces to child marriage, here is how some standout bills fared.

A bill to switch from diesel vehicles — plus $50M from cap-and-trade revenue — passed out of the Legislature, but did not offer a timeline.

With five killings since 2020, drivers and advocates are asking the mayor to form a task force to address the violence.

Proposals concerning rent stabilization and increased housing density died this time, in contrast to 2023’s “year of housing” when 10 passed.

Commissioner Paul Graves’ collaboration with GOP leaders to block his own work is a local example of larger attacks on the Voting Rights Act.

Learn why $1.5M in pandemic supplies were thrown away. Also, Spokane’s Black community newspaper returns and more Bartell Drugs locations close.

The environmental crisis has brought on anxiety, grief and a reluctance to have kids, says UW Bothell professor Jennifer Atkinson. 

The Comprehensive Plan update would create new designations to make space for corner stores and 100,000 residential units over 20 years.