If state funding for forest health and wildfire prevention isn’t ramped back up in the next legislative session, it could ...

Another set of laws went into effect July 1, including a much-decried 6-cent-per-gallon hike in the state’s gas tax. This ...

The Burdoin Fire, which ignited on July 18 in the southern border of Washington state, has rapidly consumed more than 11,000 acres and remains only 13% contained as of Thursday afternoon. State ...

The list was published by U.S. Sen. Ed Markey, a Massachusetts Democrat, as Congress sought to enact sweeping Medicaid cuts ...

Funding for more police officers, parking requirements for new housing and penalties for littering. These are just a few of ...

A federal court in Washington state invalidated a law compelling catholic priests to report child abuse disclosed during ...

RCW 26.09.191, the Washington law on parenting plan limitations (a/k/a “.191 restrictions”), will change this month due to the passage of House ...

This morning, the Burdoin Fire management team also took control of the 52-acre Snyder Canyon Fire near Klickitat. Officials ...

A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a constitutional challenge by parents in Washington state to laws addressing the ...

The wildfire burning along Highway 14 in the Columbia River Gorge is the state’s largest fire, covering 11,248 acres as of ...

Hot and dry conditions are adding challenges to firefighters who also are battling four other large areas in Washington.

KLICKITAT COUNTY, Wash. (KATU) — Fire lines held against gusty winds on Thursday around the Burdoin Fire in the Columbia ...