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New Academy Opens: Helping Police Training Backlog in Washington
The opening of new police academies is helping to tackle Washington’s critical backlog of police recruits. New Washington State Police Academy Aims to Help Recruitment Backlog. It is no secret that Washington State needs more police officers. Now, early each morning at the Regional Training Academy in Vancouver, Washington,...
Announcement: The Name of the Washington State Ferry Baby Is…
We now know the name of the baby born on a Washington State Ferry recently!. Baby Born Aboard Washington State Ferry to Anacortes. In a breathtaking event that will be remembered for years to come, a baby boy was born aboard the Washington State Ferry Samish on August 6, 2024, as it navigated from Lopez Island to Anacortes. The birth occurred at approximately 3:45 p.m. and added a new twist to the routine journey of the ferry.
New school year brings changes for WA schools under Biden Title IX Final Rule
(The Center Square) - With the new school year right around the corner, Washington’s 295 public school districts are busy trying to figure out how to comply with the recently implemented Final Rule changes to Title IX, created by the Biden administration. Twenty-six states have, at least for now, blocked the changes, and as previously reported by The Center Square, The Washington Parents Network had planned to file a legal challenge to the Title IX changes, but opted to wait for the 11th Circuit Court...
Washington state church asks Ninth Circuit to block state abortion health insurance law
(CN) — A Ninth Circuit panel grilled a Washington state church on Wednesday on in its efforts to seek relief from a state law requiring that insurance providers offer abortion access in health plans that offer maternity coverage. The Cedar Park Assembly of God in Kirkland, Washington, told the...
Washington state ‘increasingly at risk’ for rolling blackouts
(The Center Square) - A proposed battery energy storage system near Goldendale under consideration by the Energy Facility Site Evaluation Council would, if ultimately approved by Gov. Jay Inslee, be able to provide 200,000 homes with electricity for up to four hours. It’s a facility that Washington residents might need if the state is unable to meet future energy demands, which the company behind the project warns is growing more likely. ...
Prisoners still routinely isolated in WA, despite efforts to cut solitary confinement
Washington’s Department of Corrections pledged to end solitary confinement as a punishment in 2021 — but isolation is still widely used across state prisons for what the agency calls “administrative” purposes. That’s according to a 400-page June report from the Office of the Corrections Ombuds, the independent investigations office for the Department of Corrections. The […]
“Mommy is in the trees”: Surviving Toddler’s Words Still Haunt Washington
Just two weeks before Christmas, 1985, a young toddler is found wandering alone outside a Kmart in western Washington. Her parents couldn't be found anywhere. A few days later, the young girl - named Crystal - was reunited with her grandmother. There was only one clue that Crystal could offer to the location of her missing parents:
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