Former Gov. Jay Inslee (D-Washington) proposed closing the facility last December. His budget office said the closure of the facility, operating at less than half capacity, would save the state more ...

U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi appointed Bryan Stirling to the top law enforcement job; Joel Anderson takes over as acting ...

A 36-year-old Coyote Ridge inmate serving time for murder is accused of killing his cellmate early Tuesday. Investigators ...

The Washington State Department of Corrections is investigating the death of an incarcerated individual at Coyote Ridge Corrections Center.

The Correctional Association of New York issued a detailed report criticizing conditions at Washington Correctional Facility ...

As President Donald Trump’s administration rounds up hundreds of immigrants it claims are gang members and expels them to a notorious Salvadoran prison, New York state is quietly feeding federal ...

On April 25, Judge Mark Larrañaga at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent sentenced Chase Daniel Jones, 19, whose last ...

In a story published Jan. 31, 2025, about Doug Burgum, President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Interior Department, The Associated Press erroneously reported that Hess was a Chevron subsidiary.

The Department of Justice and Google faced off in court on Monday in a hearing to determine what penalties the tech giant should face for breaching antitrust laws.

The Justice Department has charged a man with vandalizing a Tesla dealership in New Mexico and setting fire to the headquarters of the state ...

We work with state and federal agencies to determine current and projected water supplies for the state. In Washington, the legal definition of drought is based on water availability. A drought ...