Washington

The city of Bellingham, Wash., is launching an investigation into how one of its employees used ChatGPT to help award a large city contract. KNKX Murrow News fellow Nate Sanford joined host Phineas Pope to discuss.

Public records uncovered by Cascade PBS and KNKX show a city employee asking ChatGPT for help tipping the scales to ensure a preferred vendor would be awarded a contract.

U.S. Senate and House Democrats from Oregon and Washington moved swiftly to condemn President Donald Trump’s announcement that the United States carried out a military strike in Venezuela and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.

Christmas is one of the busiest times of the year in the Bavarian style tourist town of Leavenworth. Last week, debris and flooding from an atmospheric river knocked out power across the area for days; including half a million twinkling lights downtown.

A seat in Congress will be open in the 2026 election in Washington’s 4th Congressional District, which covers most of Central Washington. U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse announced Wednesday morning that he will not seek reelection.

Communities throughout Chelan County are getting more intense weather, following an atmospheric river that caused extensive damage throughout the Northwest last week.

Flooding and landslides have left communities along upper Lake Chelan dealing with major damage, nearly a year after wildfire weakened hillsides in the area. A town only accessible by boat is cut off from the rest of the area because of the atmospheric river fallout.

Widespread flooding from an atmospheric river has sent blueberry and dairy farmers scrambling in northwest Washington state.

At least 19 colleges have changed essay prompts this year, according to the college counseling firm, College Transitions. Some students are now considering how they should talk about their background in their application essays.

Over the past two years in Tacoma, the name of one voter-approved citizens’ initiative — the Landlord Fairness Code — has garnered both cheers of support and cries of opposition.