Major construction projects often have to wait for the summer months. Even road maintenance has to wait for warm weather, according to the Washington State Department of Transportation. When you’re ...

A federal appeals court has found that Washington’s legislative map for a district in the Yakima Valley will stay in place after it was redrawn and adopted by a U.S. District Court last year. In the ...

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