The state’s budget could include relief for childcare providers and their potential employees.
Senate Bill 5316 would have the state cover costs for background checks, including fingerprinting, of applicants at childcare centers.
Those cost about $57, said the bill’s prime sponsor, Sen. Claire Wilson, (D) Auburn.
The bill would also cover annual licensing fees for daycare centers, $125 a year, and the licensing costs for in-home providers, $30 a year. Read more
Give 10% of your wages, or lose your job: that's the alleged ultimatum one Washington megachurch is being accused of imposing on their employees.
Churchome is based in Kirkland and has locations throughout western Washington and one in Los Angeles. It has ties with several celebrities, including former Seahawk Russell Wilson, who is on the church's board of directors.
Now Churchome is at the center of a lawsuit, as one employee alleges she was threatened with termination when she couldn’t afford to tithe -- or in other words -- donate some of her wages to church. Read more
A bill focusing on restraint and isolation of students in Washington schools failed to move forward on Wednesday.
Supporters said the legislation proposed the elimination of isolation and a reduction in restraint. The bill moved through the House and got stuck in the Senate.
Andrea Kadlec is a staff attorney at Disability Rights Washington and says DRW and the ACLU collaborated on a report called “An Examination of Restraint and Isolation Practices in Washington schools.”
The report tallied how many times restraint and isolation occurred.
"Almost 25,000 incidents against approximately 3,000 students in a year,” said Kadlec referring to data collected from the 2019-20 school year. “We found that restraint and isolation are used disproportionately against students who are in kindergarten through grade 5, students who are black and multiracial, students who are unhoused.” Read more
The Mariners' home opener is on Thursday, kicking off the 2023 season. Not only is it opening day for the M's, but for a new beer hall located right across the street from T-Mobile Park.
Signs outside of T-Mobile Park on Wednesday reminded fans that the gates open tomorrow. Not only is it a big day for the Mariners but also for their neighbors across the street inside the Box Yard Complex that currently houses Hat Back Bar & Grille and Steelheads Alley which opened just last year.
Despite construction still happening on Wednesday, beginning on Thursday fans 21 years and older will have another space to hang out called Victory Hall. The 9,500 square foot space will be the newest beer garden or "cheer garden" that will feature two full-service bars with 20 beers on tap and a giant 20-by-11-foot TV wall along with five 100-inch TVs for fans to watch the game. It will also have a 1,200-square-foot patio for fans to enjoy. Read more
A Ferndale skier is alive thanks to a team of professionals, volunteers and passersby that didn’t hesitate and came to his aid.
The near-death experience happened on Feb. 6 on Mount Baker. Nearly two months later, Lori Bishop isn’t leaving her husband’s side anytime soon.
Bill Bishop went into cardiac arrest on a black diamond and was brought back to life by a team of strangers working in unison with ski patrol and emergency responders.
“The number of people that have arrested on a mountainside that I’m aware of in Washington state that have walked out of the hospital, it’s got to be somewhere between zero and one,” said Dr. Marvin Wayne, the medical director for Whatcom County EMS. Read more
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