Evergreen PSE members vote 92.5% for strike over contract talks. Nearly 1,400 school employees will strike if no deal by Aug. 26, the first school day.

The union representing paraeducators and other workers for Evergreen Public Schools voted to approve a strike on Thursday.

A Washington state Senate bill that would have turned The Evergreen State College into a branch campus of the University of Washington is dead.

Since the Sept. 24 styrene leak, five lawsuits seeking class-action status have been filed in federal court in Cincinnati.