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Seattle mental hospital — the third in WA — to begin construction soon

This is one of two taxpayer-funded mental health operations in the works for Seattle. The other is a proposed behavioral health center at Harborview Medical Center.State Rep. Frank Chopp, D-Seattle, introduced House...

WA middle schoolers get vaccinated as districts expand access

Many families have already flocked to the general public mass vaccine sites that were open through last month, and districts like Northshore and Highline have sought partnerships to offer vaccines to students...

Will enough Seattle workers return to commuting by bus?

More than half of King County Metro’s fare revenue in 2019 came from transit passes companies provide at a discount, or for free, to employees. All major employers renewed their transit business accounts...

Diversity training on WA college campuses will soon be mandatory

Check your privilegeKarina Tobar, the Student Senate director of diversity at Wenatchee College, values transparency and accountability in this work. “Something that I would put in these trainings is to check your...

Where Seattle is on police reforms, one year after protests

But a year since George Floyd was murdered by police in Minneapolis, feelings toward the ongoing consent decree — the bureaucratic term for the police oversight agreement between Seattle and the federal...

3 WA families on how new police laws could have helped their loved ones

According to court documents, Fife police showed up to Leonard Thomas’ home after he had told his mother that he was depressed over the death of a friend. Leonard had initially requested...

New laws aim to keep people from losing their homes in Washington

After Porter’s home was sold as part of her bankruptcy case, she ended up moving out of King County and resettling in Walla Walla, where she now rents an apartment.It’s a situation...

Washington state plans to drop all COVID restrictions June 30

“This does not mean that our state of emergency will end on June 30," Inslee said. “The virus is not done with us.”The Washington State Department of Health reports that more than...

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