A Washington state lawmaker from Gig Harbor is backing a “contingency” bill in case bids for hybrid-electric ferries expected this April don’t pan out. Republican Rep. Michelle Caldier said House Bill ...

President Donald Trump assailed the agency as he toured areas of North Carolina that were ravaged by Hurricane Helene.

Political tensions and questions swirling around the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) promise to be a key test for ...

A Spokane lawmaker wants to reform gubernatorial powers in the wake of abuses taken by Gov. Jay Inslee during the COVID-2019 outbreak. Rep. Mike Volz, a Republican, said Tuesday, Jan. 14, that he ...

Patients, meanwhile, are sitting in short-term facilities or emergency rooms, waiting to get the help the ... the much smaller Eastern State in Medical Lake. In 2018, then-Gov. Jay Inslee announced a ...

A day after outgoing three-term Gov. Jay Inslee delivered his final State of the State address, Bob Ferguson was sworn in as ...

Democratic Gov. Bob Ferguson seemed to sing music to the ears of Republicans in his inaugural address Wednesday, while angering the more progressive members within his own party. In truth, his speech ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Today, January 20, 2025 will be the five year anniversary of the first reported case of COVID-19 in ...

Jay Inslee, calling him “a snake,” and a “nasty person ... is poised to return to run the Office of Management and Budget if the Senate confirms him. And federal emergency workers themselves were at ...

Democrats on the Senate Homeland Security Committee pressed Kristi Noem, President-elect Trump’s nominee for secretary of ...

Jay Inslee (D). In a largely low-key hearing ... a department that includes the Federal Emergency Management Agency. However, she was cagier on whether she would obey or refuse a directive ...

This story was originally published on MyNorthwest.com. Nearly two months after a bomb cyclone weather event swept across the Pacific Northwest, killing four people (two in Washington) and ...