Voters decided this month to allow payroll taxes collected for Washington’s new long-term care program to be invested in the stock market.

Before and after trial and even for low-level, nonviolent crimes, Native American youths are locked up at higher rates.

Amy Muia’s book A Desert Between Two Seas: A Novel in Stories follows characters living in Spanish missions in Baja California, Mexico in the 1800s. It won the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction.

The Statsraad Lehmkuhl is circumnavigating the globe to raise awareness of the ocean’s role in our future as the climate changes. The world-renowned ship recently docked in Seattle.