The State of Washington — The Evergreen State

Interactive map showing various air quality metrics throughout Washington State.

The U.S. government is chipping in about $130 million to support several Washington state projects that range from replacing a storm-damaged breakwater at a Port Orchard marina to helping a Native American tribe move from ancestral villages threatened by rising seas.

Click on any treaty to read about its history.

Washingtontribes.org is a public education program sponsored by the Washington Indian Gaming Association (WIGA) to raise awareness about how tribal government investments benefit everyone in Washington.

As the days get hotter and warmer, many Washingtonians are gearing up for the wildfires that will ignite across the region this year, causing smoky skies, ev...

In 1980, all eyes were on Mount St. Helens. Could the Northwest see another eruption soon?

Washington needs between 35 to 85 safe haven structures along the coast. Right now there is just one. If a the big quake hits thirty to sixty-foot tsunami waves would reach outer beaches within 10 to 20 minutes.

A federal judge on Friday ordered Washington state to pay more than $100 million in fines for failing to provide timely competency evaluations and treatment to mentally ill individuals who are char…

Washington has 39 counties, and there are both climate and cultural differences between the western and eastern sides of the state. The east side is more sparsely populated and covers a larger area in terms of square miles. It also includes the Evergreen State’s least-populous county, Garfield County. The west side is known...

Firefighters in southwestern Washington were working on Tuesday to extinguish a wildfire that has destroyed 10 homes and burned more than 530 acres since it broke out on Sunday, the authorities said.

In a visceral response to data showing increased speeding, drunk driving and traffic deaths, Gov. Jay Inslee said Wednesday that speed-enforcement cameras should be added to I-5 and other Washington state highways, where they aren’t legal now.

The Steptoe Butte juts out among the low Palouse hills in this nature preserve....

New funding from NOAA will invest $74.4 million across 14 projects in Washington state to enhance natural protections, create jobs, and support healthy environments.

It's a fourth grade class's dream come true.

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Several new laws go into effect in Washington state on Saturday, July 1, 2023, and later in the month. From a change to drug possession laws to an anti-hazing law and the designation of the first state dinosaur, here are some of the notable laws going into effect.

Washington state will get more than $1.2 billion from the federal government to deliver high-speed internet to communities with slow, unreliable or nonexistent service, the Biden administration announced Monday.

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The Wellington avalanche, in Washington sate, was the deadliest avalanche in the history of the United States, marked by the total death count of 96.

Capitol Hill's mystery soda machine was a Coke-themed vending machine in Capitol Hill, Seattle, Washington, United States that was in operation from at least the early 1990s until its disappearance in 2018. It is unknown who stocked the machine.

A copper and brass goat created by the "welding nun" has been chewing up litter for more than 40 years.

Starting Saturday, Washington state's new long-term care tax will be funded, using about 58 cents from every $100 of a paycheck.

Photograph of a wide dirt street identified as Main Street (now Capitol Way), Olympia, W.T., Thurston County. Along the visible right side of the street are a series of two-story wooden building, apparently mostly residences. A wooden sidewalk extends along the front of them. A man is sitting in a buggy in front of one of the...

Out of the millions of fungal species in the world, only a few hundred can make people sick. Coccidioides is one of them — and it lives in desert dust. Microscopic spores are kicked up when the ground is disturbed; if inhaled, they can cause an infection known as Valley fever. Most people recover without ever knowing they had...

On September 2nd, 1945 the United States and Japan signed the official treaty in Tokyo Bay, ending World War II. It was a war that would have a lasting impa...