Inslee signs multiple environmental reform bills

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Inslee has signed a series of bills designed to strengthen our state’s environment. Inslee on Monday signed the Climate Commitment Act, environmental justice legislation, a clean fuels standard and bills related to

For-profit prison group files suit against Washington State

SEATTLE (AP) — Private prison corporation GEO Group is suing Washington state, saying a new law mandating the closure of one of the country’s largest for-profit, privately run immigration jails would unconstitutionally subvert federal authority. The company’s

$1M bail set for drunk driver who killed worker

TRI-CITIES, Wash. (AP) — A judge has set bail at $1 million for a driver who authorities say fatally hit a construction worker near Yakima last weekend. Police say the driver’s blood-alcohol level was more than three