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South Sound temperatures are on the rise and could break into the 90s by next week.Click to Continue »

Thousands of state employees in Washington state were getting notice Tuesday that they may be temporarily laid off if a new state budget isn't adopted by early next week.Click to Continue »

Port and TOTE officials to meet July 1 in Federal Way.Click to Continue »

It starts with Spieth’s caddie Michael Greller, a former University Place school teacher who lives in Gig Harbor, and extends through the families of both men.Click to Continue »

Support is growing to name the new Washington State University medical school for Elson Floyd, the school president who died last weekend of complications from colon cancer.Click to Continue »

A federal judge has awarded the lawyers for mentally ill defendants who sued the state for warehousing them in jails $1.3 million in attorney's fees and litigation costs.Click to Continue »

Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson says businesses can add surcharges as a way to cover the costs of new minimum wage laws in some cities, but those charges must be…Click to Continue »

Seattle has new rainbow-colored crosswalks for Pride Week, and it plans to keep them for years.Click to Continue »

Roughly 70,000 pounds of food left after the U.S. Open was donated to the Emergency Food Network.Click to Continue »

The state Department of Natural Resources has expanded its burn ban to include DNR-protected lands in western Washington because drought and heat are rapidly increasing fire danger.Click to Continue »