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In the race to lead Washington’s public school system, Reid Saaris, a teacher and founder of an education nonprofit, has raised twice as much as the incumbent, Chris Reykdal.

Washington lawmakers in recent years have passed laws to require local governments to allow for more housing density with duplexes, triplexes or attached dwelling units.

The move comes as roadway deaths in the state have hit historic highs.

For many Washington families, child care is not only expensive, it’s hard to find.

The long-term care tax program has already stoked controversy, with critics saying the $36,500 benefit is too small to be meaningful.

The newly launched South Carolina Daily Gazette provides free, high-quality, nonpartisan reporting on Palmetto State issues.

In Tuesday’s elections, liberal and progressive parents banded together to push back against the right-wing takeover of local government.

Two months ago, parent Lela Casey told the Central Bucks school board, in the third-largest school district in Pennsylvania, that things had gotten out of hand. In March, a man signed up to speak using an alias that referenced the comic book vigilante The Punisher, accused the school library of possessing “child pornography,” and suggested that the Democratic school board members on the Republican-majority board belonged in prison. Casey also saw him carrying a concealed weapon&#x2...

The taste of Soviet childhood was, indeed, made up of chocolate bars, chocolate figures and chocolate kits.

Fires have more than doubled so far this year on state-managed public land in Washington, and people are mostly to blame for the blazes.