With major shutdown impacts beginning to set in, a scholar of Congress says the House has all but abdicated its position as ‘The People’s Chamber.’

Voters across Washington will decide nearly 3,000 races in Tuesday’s election.

Washington state will give food banks $2.2 million per week as they deal with the potential end of food stamp benefits due to the ongoing federalgovernment shutdown. 

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown was among the nearly two dozen attorneys general who filed the lawsuit over the suspension of SNAP benefits.

Anacortes Police this week logged a bank fraud report, checkout a swimmer in the Guemes Channel, and arrested and jailed a suspicious man on the Guemes Trail who had been reported by several people.

Expiring federal tax credits are driving an average 21% increase in rates on the state’s health benefit exchange as open enrollment nears.