Washington State employees will no longer be required to get a COVID-19 vaccination in order to keep their jobs.Read More
School Resource Officers should be following the state’s vaccination mandate. But that isn’t the case for some officers who serve schools in Benton County.Read More
Washington has nine independently elected statewide officeholders. All but one of those elected officials has required their employees to get the COVID-19 vaccine. The holdout was the lone Republican.Read More
Roughly nine in 10 employees of the state of Washington are now vaccinated against COVID-19. Gov. Jay Inslee considers that a huge success and a win for public health. But his vaccine mandate has also led to the departure of hundreds of state employees. Now there are questions about the implications for some state services.Read More
Ninety two percent of Washington state employees are vaccinated against COVID-19.Read More
Washington State University's new football coach Jake Dickert began his new responsibilities Tuesday as interim head coach. That's after the school fired Nick Rolovich and four assistants for not complying with the state’s COVID-19 vaccine requirement.Read More
The Washington State Patrol says it’s lost 127 employees as a result of Governor Jay Inslee’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate. That’s about six percent of the workforce. And it includes more than 70 troopers and other sworn members of the agency.Read More
Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s vaccine mandate has survived an 11th hour court challenge. On Monday, Thurston County Superior Court Judge Carol Murphy denied a motion for an injunction to block the mandate from taking effect.Read More
Washington Governor Jay Inslee’s vaccine mandate is now in effect. But it may be several days before we know how many people in state government, health care and education lost their jobs because they didn’t get vaccinated.Read More
Washington State University head football coach Nick Rolovich was terminated Monday after he failed to comply with Governor Jay Inslee's vaccine mandate.Read More
Dozens of Washington state troopers, prison correctional officers, ferry workers and other public sector employees have filed a lawsuit in Walla Walla County to try to overturn Gov. Jay Inslee's COVID-19 vaccine. The lawsuit alleges the mandate is unlawful and unconstitutional.Read More
