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Can Washington state lawmakers cut their way out of a $2 billion shortfall?

Washington state's 60-day legislative session started Monday in Olympia with lawmakers facing a $2 billion budget shortfall. Washington State Standard reporter Jerry Cornfield has been following lawmakers' attempts to soften the blow.
- Kim Malcolm
'Enough is enough.' WA congresswoman pushes to impeach Kristi Noem

U.S. Rep. Emily Randall, a Washington Democrat, says she's co-sponsoring a measure to impeach and remove Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem from office.
- KUOW Staff
Gerrymander Washington state? Democrats want to talk about it

As red and now blue states around the country try to redraw their congressional maps, the conversation in Washington state to this point has been: There’s "literally no way." But Joe Fitzgibbon, the Democrats’ majority leader in the state House of Representatives, wants to start a conversation.
- Scott Greenstone
Katie Wilson is officially Seattle's mayor. Her agenda: affordability, housing, and workers' rights

Katie Wilson was sworn in as Seattle’s new mayor in a public ceremony at Seattle’s City Hall on Friday.
- Eilís O'Neill
Trump says he's dropping push for National Guard in Portland, LA, and Chicago, for now

President Donald Trump said he’s dropping — for now — his push to deploy National Guard troops in Chicago, Los Angeles and Portland, Oregon, a move that comes after legal roadblocks hung up the effort.
- Associated Press
The year in numbers: 2025 in Seattle and Washington state

Record-breaking protests. A historic run for the Mariners. Mass tech layoffs. The closest local election in decades. Here are some of the numbers that shaped KUOW’s stories this year.
- Teo Popescu
'All the walls are falling.' Shoreline Community College plans layoffs

Shoreline Community College is planning layoffs as it faces a $4 million three-year budget deficit.
- Ann Dornfeld
Some colleges scrap diversity questions from admissions essays. Will it change how students talk about themselves?

Starting this year, some colleges have changed or removed essay prompts that referenced diversity from their admissions applications.
- Freddy Monares/KNKX
What's in Seattle's budget? Mapping the $8.9 billion spending plan Mayor Harrell leaves for Wilson

The Seattle City Council last week approved Mayor Bruce Harrell’s $9 billion dollar budget for 2026. That means when Seattle Mayor-elect Katie Wilson takes office in January, she and the new City Council will inherit those funding choices. Here’s what to know in the meantime — explained in pizza terms.
- Teo Popescu
Sworn in early, Exec Zahilay is ready to shake up King County

Surrounded by kids from the audience and holding his baby daughter, Girmay Zahilay was sworn in Tuesday as the 10th King County executive and the youngest ever to hold the position.
- Scott Greenstone

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