Vyraa — Local News for Bremerton, Kitsap County & Washington State

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown joins a 22-state coalition in Manhattan federal court to halt a new DHS public charge rule penalizing immigrant families for accessing Medicaid, food assistance, and housing.

Kitsap County commissioners convene three days of budget review hearings facing a $9 million General Fund deficit, weighing a public safety sales tax against 45 to 60 staff layoffs.

A federal judge in Virginia granted a preliminary injunction co-led by Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, halting federal seizure of 17 million commercial driver license records and protecting $10 million in safety funding.

Naval Base Kitsap officially opened its newly constructed Child Development Center at Bangor, nearly doubling childcare capacity with 16 classrooms across a three-phase rollout.

The Washington Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that Initiative 2066 is unconstitutional in its entirety, finding that the voter-approved natural gas measure bundled four distinct subjects in violation of Article II, Section 19.

St. Michael Medical Center is funding an advanced registered nurse practitioner across three Kitsap Fire CARES teams to provide in-home and mobile clinical care, diverting non-emergent 911 calls.

The Seattle City Council unanimously approved Council Bill 121278, amending the municipal civil rights code to prohibit discrimination based on consensual non-monogamy, pansexuality, and asexuality.

UNITE HERE Local 8 workers at the Embassy Suites Seattle Downtown Pioneer Square ratified a four-year contract, ending an 85-day strike with record $31.03 starting housekeeper wages and year-round healthcare.