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More than three-quarters of Washington’s 42,000 homeless students aren’t sleeping outside or in shelters. They're on someone’s couch, staying temporarily with friends, relatives, or acquaintances, often without a room or a bed of their own. It's a situation known as being "doubled-up."

(Runtime 3:56) In a small art room in Othello, Washington, sun catcher butterflies — made out of scraps of tissue paper, fake flowers and sequins — came…

Washington's legislature adjourned its 2023 regular session with a new two-year state budget, alongside dozens of policy changes focused on housing, health care and public safety – and a surprising last-minute bill failure.

A recent salmon field trip has helped students become more curious about salmon.

A lawsuit was filed in Benton County Superior court this week against the Richland WA school district, school board and three individual members of the school board, alleging violations of the Open Public Meetings Act.

Richland Washington public schools were in an emergency closure Wednesday, and will be closed again Thursday.

School Resource Officers should be following the state’s vaccination mandate. But that isn’t the case for some officers who serve schools in Benton County.

In several areas of the state, school resource officers are contracted employees from sheriff’s departments. Pierce and Benton county both supply sheriff deputies to local school districts as school resource officers. In the Kiona Benton school district, the school resource officer is sheriff deputy Brad Klippert, who is also a state representative.

More Murrow News StoriesPULLMAN, WASH. (Murrow News 8) - We continue to hear about it, the staffing shortages schools are facing across the country, but…

Tens of thousands of public school students in Washington state returned to classes this month in school buildings judged to be at risk of collapse in a strong earthquake. A new report to the state Legislature prepared by state geologists and a structural engineering firm gave the lowest possible seismic safety rating to more than 90 percent of the school buildings assessed in a selective statewide survey.