Farmers in Columbia County may have trouble accessing programs through the U.S. Department of Agriculture locally when the USDA’s Dayton service center closes under federal cost-cutting reforms. The fate of the service center's employees remains unclear.

Senator Perry Dozier (R-16) and Representative Mark Klicker (R-16) will host a virtual town hall meeting on Monday, March 17 at 6:00 pm. Representative Skyler Rude (R-16) is not scheduled to be a participant. The meeting will conclude at 7:00 pm. Advance registration is required. Click here to register.

You may submit a question to Dozier and Klicker when you register.

Representative Richard Hudson of North Carolina, the chairman of House Republicans’ campaign arm, issued a stark message to the GOP rank and file on Tuesday: Stop having in-person town halls with your constituents.

The Department of Veterans Affairs is planning a reorganization that includes cutting over 80,000 jobs from the sprawling agency that provides health care for retired military members, according to an internal memo obtained by The Associated Press.

It’s 6:40 a.m. at the Washington State Penitentiary. Men are starting to wake up. Certain sounds come alive. “Man, you hear them toilets flushing up there?” Demar Nelson asks from inside his cell.

Congressman Michael Baumgartner called on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to resign Friday, hours after a diplomatic meltdown in the White House as President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance claimed Zelenskyy was ungrateful to the administration.

President Donald Trump berated Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for being “disrespectful” Friday in an extraordinary Oval Office meeting, then abruptly called off the signing of a minerals deal with the U.S. that Trump said would have moved Ukraine closer to ending its war with Russia.

On Thursday Gen. Jim Mattis, Trump’s defense secretary from 2017 to the start of 2019, joined other former secretaries of defense to call on Congress to hold immediate hearings to assess the national security implications of Trump’s recent dismissal of several senior U.S. military leaders.

Democrats and like-minded individuals are standing against the harmful, reckless, and overly broad cuts to vital federal programs and funding imposed by the unelected Elon Musk and DOGE, enabled by President Trump.

Charles F. “Chuck” Sams, the outgoing director of the National Park Service, said he was “shocked” by the firing of nearly 1,000 NPS employees on Feb. 14 and cautioned park guests that they will see the consequences of the budget-cutting edicts of the Trump administration.

At the promise of a job as an environmental protection specialist for the Umatilla National Forest, Nathan Morga uprooted his life, moving his family to Walla Walla in April of last year.

If the Democratic resistance to the second Trump administration has seemed a little muted, there were signs of stirring this week at a town hall held in Seattle by Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

President Donald Trump falsely called Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky “a dictator,” escalating a public war of words between the two leaders that started when Trump falsely accused Ukraine of starting the war with Russia.

Protests are set to take place in several major cities across the U.S. on Monday, the Presidents Day holiday, according to activists. The protests are a response to what organizers describe as "the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration."

A physician at Seattle Children’s Hospital. A janitor at Seattle Center. A retired elementary school teacher. A disabled military veteran. These people and about 80 others protested in front of a Tesla showroom in South Lake Union.

A financial Sword of Damocles still hangs over Washington’s budget as uncertainty remains over a federal funding freeze.  The state might have to trim additional billions of dollars from the Washington Legislature’s upcoming 2025-27 budget if President Donald Trump follows through on his order to halt all federal grants and loans to the states.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson reiterated his vows to shield the state from “chaos” coming from the Trump administration, including the freezing of congressionally approved federal funds.

Just hours after being sworn into office for a second term, President Donald Trump signed numerous executive orders on immigration. While some were policies he had executed in his first term, others were unprecedented, such as ending birthright citizenship.