OLYMPIA – Government agencies failed to react fast enough to smaller fires that grew last July into the largest wildfire in state history, Central Washington residents told legislators. While DNR supervisors defended efforts to battle the Carlton Complex, Okanogan officials accused them of being disorganized and ill-prepared.
OLYMPIA -- Gov. Jay Inslee and Lt. Gov. Brad Owen have made bets with their counterparts on the outcome of the Super Bowl. If you care, click on the story.
OLYMPIA -- A House committee takes up questions about the state's early response to the fires that turned into the Carlton Complex and the full House votes on Joel's Law.
Envision Spokane, a wide-ranging initiative that twice failed at the polls, will be before voters again, after a decision today by a state appellate court. A unanimous decision by the court ruled today ruled against the 2013 decision by a Superior Court judge to remove...
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