For decades, five days has been considered enough time to detox from alcohol or drug addictions. But withdrawal symptoms from fentanyl and other opioids are more severe.
Pierce County had 3,568 evictions in 2024, a 22% jump from the prior year. Evictions were up 33% from pre-pandemic levels.
The state departments of Ecology and Health are leading an effort to determine whether turf can be manufactured without hazardous chemicals.
Hospitals must submit staffing plans that include a minimum number of employees assigned to be in each unit at each hour of the day.
The state recorded 25 times more cases of pertussis, or whooping cough, in 2024 than in 2023.
The state declared a drought emergency for much of Western Washington, but not for Gig Harbor or the Kitsap Peninsula. Here’s why.
Washington public health departments will see a slight reduction in state funding for basic services over the next two years, but the severity and local impacts of that loss on the Kitsap Peninsula remains unclear. State legislators reduced spending on Foundational Public Health Services by $24 million over the 2025-2027 budget. Those funds sustain essential
As Kimberly Shaw recalls her arduous four-year journey to open the first licensed child-care center on the Key Peninsula, she holds an infant boy in her lap. Getting a permit for a child-care center has been more difficult than Shaw, director of the nonprofit Key Peninsula Cooperative Preschool, initially envisioned. The process has been filled
Emily Randall, the Bremerton Democrat elected last fall to represent the Sixth Congressional District, says she’s “trying to learn this new job while I navigate all this chaos.”
An EPA grant to the Pierce County health district was eliminated, while the federal Forest Service endured thousands of layoffs.
