Agricultural workers in Washington will see a mandated 40-hour workweek that will ensure a bonus for overtime, starting Jan. 1.The Washington State Legislature passed a law that extended overtime to agricultural workers...
A list of orders the court released indicated it would not hear the dispute over the widely discredited practice, which about two dozen states prohibit or restrict. Three of the court’s nine...
The introduction of the ordinance will be one of Folyer’s final significant acts as a Councilmember before he is replaced by Linda Ball on January 1. A similar bill was passed in May...
All these factors leave many people turning to relatives for care, an option that can create hardships of its own for the family members who step in to help. This National Family Caregiving...
Yearly statewide polls by Crosscut-Elway, going back to 2019, have found that the biggest issue voters think the Legislature should address has consistently been homelessness.Public safety and policing have also risen to...
Basler is challenging incumbent King County Elections Director Julie Wise, a longtime elections worker who has been running the office since 2016 and who has overseen the expansion of ballot boxes and...
Ellis, a Black man, died after a chaotic altercation with the officers on a city street, which took place as he was walking home from a trip to a convenience store to...
“This is the time for us to pull out all those lessons we’ve learned about mask-wearing, handwashing, all the respiratory etiquette that we’ve learned before and being ready for what appears to...
