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Gov. Jay Inslee announced Friday the appointment of Veronica Alicea Galván to the King County Superior Court bench. Veronica Alicea Galván Galván is a former Assistant City Attorney for the city of Seattle who currently presides over the Des Moines Municipal Court and operates a dual-language courtroom that allows cases to be heard in Spanish. She earned…

A Darrington man says people and companies most affected by the Highway 530 mudslide are not being properly considered for the job of clearing the buried highway, and he has collected hundreds of signatures on a petition asking state officials to rectify the situation. Brian Roggenbuck said Thursday he had collected 700 signatures, and wrote to Gov. Jay…

President Barack Obama has selected Gov. Jay Inslee and 25 other elected officials to serve on a climate change task force. Inslee’s office on Friday said the panel will include governors, mayors, county officials and tribal leaders from a range of states and communities. “Washingtonians are every day seeing the dangerous effects of climate change in more devastating…