The Washington state Senate on April 8 passed a bill sponsored by state Rep. Peter Abbarno, R-Centralia, that would give privately-owned utility companies more options to fund repairs to their systems ...

A new recycling law has long been on the wish list of environmental advocates and would standardize the state’s recycling system.

The loss of the Columbia Pulp plant was a major contributor to the decrease in total assessed valuation in the county.

U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen met with officials from Snohomish County, Edmonds, Lynnwood and other cities Wednesday  for a ...

I vividly remember the very first Earth Day: April 22, 1970. I was a graduate student in journalism at Stanford University. Denis Hayes, also a Stanford student, organized the original celebration. As ...

UM Legislative News Service, University of Montana School of Journalism HELENA – In a legislative committee meeting in March, two energy executives stood before a panel of stony-faced lawmakers, a ...

Senate votes to expand and strengthen clean fuels program passing HB 1409, bill now heads back to House for concurrence.

Send a bill to the rate payers every 30 days ... Early returns from this summer’s load control experiments at Puget Sound Energy show residential customers follow time-of-day rates very closely and ...

Puget Sound Energy crews put up new ‘tree wire’ to add a little extra protection to power lines on Vashon Island.

The Washington House and Senate aren't in alignment on whether funding for extra passenger ferry trips should continue.

The history of the Montlake neighborhood puts a new zoning proposal in perspective, and it raises questions about how Seattle should grow. The investigation found city employees worked impaired ...

The Puget Sound Energy Outage Map showed a Tumwater outage southwest of Capitol Lake that was impacting at least 2,585 customers since 6:40 a.m. A similar large outage affected part of Olympia east of ...