While Washington has some of the toughest trafficking laws in the nation, law enforcement in Seattle and Portland struggle to put policy into practice.

Plus, holiday art markets and craft fairs in Georgetown, South Lake Union, Beacon Hill and Magnuson Park.

Already dreading the 2024 election atmosphere, a bipartisan group of community leaders and politicians are working to “disagree better.”

Plus, meet the country’s only two snail farmers, who share everything from how to use them in tacos to the gastropod’s fascinating mating rituals

Plus, grocery costs spike in the Pacific Northwest and an Indigenous youth arts organization finds a home at King Street Station.

Seventeen months after the Supreme Court decision, clinics and patients continue to face a maze of legal restrictions that differ from state to state.

Reporter Megan Burbank discusses new and old complications for reproductive healthcare in WA, from appointment delays to politics.

The Liberty Lake proposal would usurp the library board of trustees’ policy-making control, including decisions about which titles to stock.

The death of the whale at a Miami amusement park just before her planned release highlighted the species’ fraught relationship with humans.

As manufactured home communities in Washington become less affordable, residents have increasingly organized to galvanize support and push policy.

See Nutcrackers, Scrooges, hear Charlie Brown’s woes. Here’s a big list of events for the season — laid out in rhyme (for festivity reasons).

Gov. Jay Inslee’s office has commissioned an independent review amid dueling claims by former agency leaders over the workplace climate.

Reporter Lizz Giordano discusses the legal fallout from a construction death. Plus, a look at state ballot rejections and new art spaces in Seattle.

A fatal trench collapse in 2016 set precedent for holding employers criminally liable, but officials still struggle to head off repeat violations.

Reporter Lizz Giordano talks about the legal handling of Harold Felton’s death – and why his family thinks more could have been done.

Billions in federal pandemic aid masked dysfunction in the rental market. But that money is gone — along with some legal protections.

Crater Lake wasn’t always a lake. Knute Berger tells the story of when a blast 50 times the size of Mt St. Helens' blanketed the PNW in ash.

Voters in the Nov. election were able to distribute public campaign funds in $25 increments. Where did the money land?

In just one generation, ticket-splitting has become increasingly rare in a state with a long history of independent voting.

While Mount Mazama blew its top almost 8,000 years ago, it’s still remembered today by the descendants of its witnesses.