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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.

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.

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.

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

Recent incidents in the region and a secession movement in Oregon show the Civil War era and its divisions still echo in the Northwest.

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

From the Oregon Trail to the Lake Washington Bridge, transportation infrastructure has often driven growth while promoting exclusion.

A lawsuit claims three teenagers were handcuffed while in isolation, violating the state’s own policies and raising profound moral questions.

With the Monschke decision, the state Supreme Court expanded the definition of youth in murder cases. No other court has done so.