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1 week ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Doug Nadvornick |Bellamy Pailthorp |Owen Henderson |Steve Jackson
WA traffic deaths fall from 33-year high but remain elevatedThe summer travel season unofficially began this week, and Washington state officials have released their annual report on traffic fatalities. The Traffic Safety Commission says 731 people were killed in accidents during 2024. Mark McKechnie, a spokesperson for the commission, said that’s down from more than 809 the year before.
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1 week ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Doug Nadvornick |Steve Jackson |Anna King |Gustavo Sagrero
Residents can now add supplements to state long-term care insuranceWashington legislators this year tweaked the state’s first-in-the-nation long-term care program, WA Cares. The most significant change allows people to also buy supplementary private insurance — similar to Medicare supplements — to cover some of their long-term care expenses. Initially, the state required people to choose one or the other. Many opted out of WA Cares to avoid the mandatory payroll deduction.
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3 weeks ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Freddy Monares |John Ryan |Doug Nadvornick |Steve Jackson
WA cuts funds to nonprofit that helps foster youthA former Washington State lawmaker is criticizing the current Legislature for excluding $7 million for a foster youth program from the state budget. Reuven Carlyle served in both chambers of the legislature between 2009 and 2023. He helped secure the first and then subsequent state investments to the nonprofit Treehouse.
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4 weeks ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
One of Sydney's true kings of the Cross, renowned nightclub identity Steve Lowe, has marked the premature end of his life much the way he lived it: by hosting a star-studded bash the whole city is talking about. The much-loved promoter and top-shelf chef was this week joined by more than 180 of his closest friends aboard a party boat on Sydney Harbour for a final 'send off' and 'live funeral' before he heads into palliative care.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
Forget the bottles of bubbly - Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has kicked off his federal election victory lap by taking in a cappuccino in the heart of his inner Sydney electorate with fiancée Jodie Haydon. And where better to celebrate a win he described as being a triumph for traditional Aussie values, than one of his seat of Grayndler's most traditional venues: Bar Italia.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
The Liberal Party is expected to rapidly seek to replace its ousted leader and task them with the unenviable duty of rebuilding the shattered party its worse-ever defeat in a federal election. Opposition leader Peter Dutton was the highest-profile casualty as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's Labor Party swept to victory in an historic landslide win at the ballot box on Saturday returned them to parliament as a majority government.
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
Opposition leader Peter Dutton is on track to lose his seat as he suffers a disastrous swing against him in the Queensland capital. The former policeman is trailing Labor candidate Ali France in the seat of Dickson, which he has held for almost a quarter of a century since beating Cheryl Kernot in 2001, and now appears destined to lose. More to come
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1 month ago | 
thisismoney.co.uk | Steve Jackson
A notorious serial killer who preyed on vulnerable women has died after being transferred from his prison cell to a Sydney hospital. Rodney Francis Cameron, dubbed 'The Lonely Hearts Killer' after he met a woman on a radio matchmaking contest before luring her to her death was pronounced dead in Prince of Wales Hospital, in Sydney's east, about 11.30 on Saturday night. It is understood he had been in a palliative care ward at the Randwick hospital after being diagnosed with terminal cancer.
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1 month ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Johanna Bejarano |Doug Nadvornick |Steve Jackson |Owen Henderson
Federal funding cuts cause Head Start suspensionsMore than 400 children in Central Washington are without educational support services after federal funding never arrived. Inspire Development Centers is located in Sunnyside, Washington. The organization offers early childhood education programming to low-income children through various centers in Central Washington. They receive federal funding through the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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1 month ago | 
spokanepublicradio.org | Doug Nadvornick |Owen Henderson |Lauren Paterson |Steve Jackson
Striking workers in WA one step closer to benefitsThe Washington House has voted to allow striking workers to receive unemployment benefits. The vote was 52-43, with seven Democrats joining every Republican in voting against. The bill originally called for strikers to qualify for up to 12 weeks of benefits, but that was amended to four weeks. Rep. Jeremie Dufault (R-Yakima) argued people who strike choose to do so and shouldn’t be rewarded.
