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Democrat Nick Brown leads in Washington attorney general race

Brown’s competitor in the general election, Republican Pete Serrano, took home 43% of the statewide vote after the first ballot counts. First a JAG officer in the Army, Brown later became a prosecutor...

Data gaps make relief payments to WA officials hard to trace

Inconsistent informationThe $790 billion Paycheck Protection Program serves as one of the largest federal efforts to provide economic stability while also detailing those payments in publicly accessible data. But it still represents...

WA auditors sift through waves of federal dollars to detect fraud

"We're dealing with billions of dollars here," she said. "We almost doubled the state's federal spending in 2021."Before the pandemic, Washington spent about $18 billion in federal money each year, according to...

Rural WA wants in on state highway, health and housing dollars

Democrats introduced a wide-ranging transportation package on Feb. 8 that would allocate billions to public transit, electrifying ferries, pedestrian safety measures, carbon reduction, new bridges and rail systems. The package draws on...

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