Sophia Gates covers rural Whatcom and Skagit counties. She is a Washington State Murrow Fellow whose work is underwritten by taxpayers and available outside CDN's paywall. Reach her at ...

Julie Gunter was trying to get appropriate services from the Seattle School District for her daughter, a student with disabilities, but hit a major snag: past records of how other school districts ...

Ralph Munro, a long-tenured and much-beloved politician who worked to better the lives of people with disabilities, hone Washington’s election system and stop the capture of orcas in Puget Sound, and ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — On Wednesday, U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. warned that children are being diagnosed with autism at an “alarming rate," and claimed that autism ...

OLYMPIA — A watchdog report by disability rights advocates found that restraint and isolation have been excessively and improperly used on Washington school students, and disproportionately used on ...