Seattle City Light is set to spend millions on fish passage, habitat restoration, and compensation to tribes in the coming ...

The Department of Energy issued a second “emergency” order to keep the last coal plant in Washington open for another 90 days, doing its best to raise electricity and health costs for Washington state ...

Longview has always been a town that makes things. From our timber beginnings to our modern port, we are an industrial city built on honest work. Erik Halvorson is the mayor of Longview after a ...

As rising energy prices become a potent political issue, one Vanderbilt University expert is pitching a set of regulations that he claims would reduce the average household’s monthly electric bill by ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — The Washington State House has voted to pass a contentious millionaires tax after more than 24 hours of debate, with deliberations having started Monday evening at 6 p.m. Senate Bill ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — A controversial bill that could allow the state to remove an elected sheriff moved closer to becoming law after it passed the Washington House early Friday morning following hours of ...

CENTRALIA, Wash. — The Washington State Attorney General’s Office filed a lawsuit Tuesday accusing the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) of failing to release public records tied to its decision to keep ...

With Americans’ utility bills climbing by 21% in just the last three years, President Donald Trump is rightly focused on the affordability crisis and the urgent need for price relief. Solar energy is ...

Pennsylvania pulled out of the Regional Green Gas Initiative through the state budget process last fall. The climate program would have capped the amount of carbon companies in the state were allowed ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Attorney General Nick Brown announced Wednesday that Washington state is co-leading a lawsuit against the federal government, alleging it unlawfully terminated funding for clean ...

Racks of servers inside an AWS data center in 2023. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Lisa Karstetter grew up in Eastern Washington’s agricultural country. By the mid-2000s, she was running the Quincy Valley ...

Last week’s legislative launch of a bill to create a Washington income tax on high earners was hailed by Democratic legislative leaders as a “generational” moment in the history of state policy. But ...