Parents in Washington are running into problems finding and affording child care, and a new report estimates it’s costing the state’s economy billions of dollars annually.

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.

Four days after the election, that ballot measure to change the Fidalgo Pool District configuration is still too close to call.

A measure on the August 6 ballot to re-designate the Fidalgo Pool district as a Metropolitan Recreation District is too close to call.

A confrontation at a Sunday political demonstration prompted police to intervene.