Planned Parenthood operates 30 health centers in Washington, including in Bremerton and Tacoma. The organization faces a potential loss of key federal and state funds.
A federal program helped food banks buy produce from local farmers. It won’t be available next year.
A cell phone study at the University of Washington, which included Peninsula School District, offers a look at how teachers, students and parents feel about bans.
988 both gets callers in crisis to those best able to help them and relieves pressure on first responders and 911 lines.
Dispensers with free naloxone are available in Tacoma, Kitsap County and Home, but there are none in Gig Harbor.
Are your children up to date on their vaccines? Here’s a look at immunizations are required for which ages.
Air quality on the Kitsap Peninsula will oscillate between healthy and moderate levels over the next couple days as smoke from the Bear Gulch wildfire on the Olympic Peninsula sweeps over the region. As of Monday afternoon, most areas of Kitsap, Pierce and King counties had ‘moderate’ air quality, according to the Puget Sound Clean
Long-term care facilities typically rely on foreign-born workers, but they are unlikely to be undocumented because of requirements imposed on facilities that accept government insurance.
Shane Cleveland of Bremerton donated a kidney to former UW basketball and football star Nate Robinson in February. His wife Kara did the same, also for a stranger, 14 years ago.
Experts say the multi-family tax exemption is a good way to encourage affordable housing; some residents say it just shifts the tax burden.
