This story has been updated to correct a reference to the Cle Elum School District. GIG HARBOR – Last Spring, Michele Suiter hopped on a Zoom call with school officials from Cle Elum to offer ...

It would also potentially make funding departments like the city’s police and fire departments, schools and social services challenging to fund. What led Cle Elum to consider bankruptcy?

Too many questions — including costs, logistics and potential lawsuits — kept the Cle Elum-Roslyn School Board from voting on a proposal to ban transgender students from playing on girls’ ...