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Elected leaders say they are committed to the completion of Sound Transit's Everett light rail extension, despite the agency's $34.5 billion budget shortfall.

Elected officials in Tacoma are urging Sound Transit not to abandon a planned light rail extension to the Tacoma Dome.

A new law requires the state superintendent to study limiting cellphones in schools, but advocates worry that without a statewide ban Washington will get left behind.

The state will require large AI developers to provide tools for people to detect if content was AI-generated. Another law focused on suicide prevention for minors using chatbots.

Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson is straying from her predecessor’s artificial intelligence ambitions, pausing the rollout of Microsoft’s AI Copilot chatbot for city employees.

At a rally by the REI store in Seattle on Wednesday, unionized REI employees accused the Issaquah-based company of walking away from the table and bargaining in bad faith.

Advocates hope cities like Seattle will soon establish similar legal protections for people who are in polyamorous or other nontraditional relationship structures.

Washington state doesn’t have any major AI regulation on the books. But lawmakers, increasingly concerned about the technology’s potential harms, are looking to catch up.

Nearly three months after devastating floods tore through Western Washington, volunteers are helping people rebuild damaged homes. But the money is about to run dry.

Concerned about artificial intelligence proliferating unchecked, state lawmakers are moving forward with several proposals for new regulations on AI applications.

Almost all of the unionized workers voted on Thursday to reject a proposed contract with the Issaquah-based outdoor retailer.

A new caucus in Congress co-chaired by Seattle Democratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal is launching a series of “field hearings” focused on affordability