Here’s a major reason our local governments can’t have nice things, like adequate police staffing: Despite all the bridge traffic and bad things about Portland, we still love to shop in Oregon.

In Richland, a new sales tax will help finance road maintenance after the city council chose to replace the car tab fee, ...

A coalition of labor and advocacy groups announced Friday they will try to get a proposed countywide half-cent sales tax hike ...

The Auburn City Council voted Nov. 17 to add a one-tenth of 0.1% sales-and-use tax for criminal justice purposes.

As job cuts spread gloom through the Seattle-area tech scene, one of Microsoft Corp.’s top executives is warning that state ...

It’s no surprise that Forbes ranks Washington dead last for business survival at 59.2% (meaning nearly 40% of businesses fail ...

The workshop will be led by Lalo Mendoza, tax information specialist, and Darlene Warner, tax policy specialist, both with ...

The Richland City Council has unanimously approved a new sales tax to fund road repairs, replacing the current vehicle ...

A security company is challenging Washington state's new sales tax expansion law, and has asked a judge to block it until litigation is concluded. The law went into effect on October 1, applying sales ...

A Lafayette man will spend 30 years in prison after trying to kill his then-girlfriend in Breaux Bridge, authorities said.

Tomorrow, new legislation will unleash a slew of new sales taxes on services, courtesy of Senate Bill 5814 (SB 5814), designed to plug a self-inflicted budget black hole at the expense of hardworking ...

A contentious new sales tax on services that Democratic state lawmakers relied on to pay for Washington’s latest budget is set to take effect Wednesday. Senate Bill 5814 is one of the biggest ...