House Bill 2489, which fundamentally limits the ability of cities and counties to clear homeless encampments, stays alive, ...
Feb. 4 marked the deadline for non-fiscal bills to pass out of their policy committees in the Washington state Legislature.
Bill cutoff day was on Wednesday in Olympia. Plenty of proposals didn’t make it. But House Bill 2489, which would ...
Three Ephrata city leaders spent two days in Olympia last week meeting with state lawmakers on a wide range of bills ...
A state committee has approved legislation that would stop cities from enforcing anti-camping ordinances when no shelter space is available.
A federally funded housing initiative is opening its doors to 95 residents this month, but local leaders have previously cast ...
Shirley Murray, a former Bellingham resident whose dogged persistence helped lead to the creation of a nonprofit that supports homeless women and children, died on Jan. 31, 2026, in Vancouver, Clark ...
The 15th Health through Housing in location has already moved over a dozen Federal Way community members off the street.