Unless you also enjoy swimming naked with jellyfish, I would heartily recommend that you not wear shorts when you hike the southern trails at Dugualla State Park.

In recent years, districts are spending a lot more money to keep Washington’s schools running — but state funding isn’t keeping up. 

Now a week after the election, the move to create a new recreation district for the Fidalgo Pool, the measure leads by just six votes.

A handgun and ammunition magazine were stolen from a vehicle parked in a residential driveway.

The Washington Supreme Court rejected a bid by GOP leaders to keep them off. Justices also dismissed progressive groups’ challenges to the validity of signatures and certification of initiatives.