With a month to go before lawmakers pack their cars and flock to Olympia, 2008 is already shaping up to be a busy legislative session. More than two dozen lawmakers already have proposed about 50 changes in state law, including a 10-cents-a-gallon ...

One odd thing about the state House of Representatives is that lawmakers can vote on bills even if they're not there. They do this by getting a seatmate to vote on their behalf, simply pushing the right green or red button when a vote is needed. It's ...

SNOQUALMIE -- For nearly 50 years, the Snoqualmie Indians were unrecognized by the federal government, partly because the tribe of 600 didn't have a reservation of its own. - Jessica Simpson forges a new path in country music But Thursday night, the ...

The Lewis County Economic Development Council has named longtime state official Dick Larman as its new executive director. Larman, a managing director for the Washington State Department of Community Trade and Economic Development (CTED), will take ...

The Lewis County Economic Development Council has named longtime state official Dick Larman as its new executive director. Larman, a managing director for the Washington State Department of Community Trade and Economic Development (CTED), will take ...

The next few months will see big changes for the nascent Snoqualmie Tribal Police Department. From origins last summer with a single officer at the helm, the force is expected to add staff, set up a station and replace King County Sheriff’s ...

Stormmy Paul's home clings to the eastern edge of the Tulalip Indian Reservation. Smoke from his weekly campfire drifts over the reservation's border with Marysville, across the imaginary place on the road where drivers suddenly realize they've left ...

WASHINGTON - Antarctica lost billions of tons of ice over the last decade, contributing to the rising seas around the world, a climate researcher said on Monday. The ice melted from two particular parts of the southern continent, according to Eric ...