Democrats and Republicans in Washington traded verbal fireworks Tuesday over House Bill 1296, a measure about parental rights ...

Washington Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen and Speaker of the House Laurie Jinkins issued a joint statement vowing to ...

Combined with a swell of overall applications and a slowdown of exits, Seattle is seeing a very real shift from the drought ...

A bill designed to give Washington state renters more protections from service and fee increases and ensure tenants aren’t ...

Washington parents and K-12 students marched to the state Capitol Thursday to urge legislators and the governor to fully fund ...

“We had a budget surplus of $14 billion. The economy's been strong since then. The state has 25% more money now than it did (three years ago). Those usually aren't the circumstances where you get a ...

we’ve seen the cost of essential items like school supplies, technology and curriculum rise significantly while state funding ...

Washington state already has some of the nation's strictest gun control laws. But some legislators want to make them even ...

Lawmakers have begun another hard conversation on what it may cost the state to amply fund basic education in public schools ...

Democratic leaders in Washington’s Legislature say they are trying to avoid getting too caught up in the early orders from President Donald Trump.

The proposed bills would require permits for gun purchases, impose an excise tax, and limit sales of guns and ammo in ...

As state lawmakers begin their session in Olympia trying to batten down the spending hatches in the face of Washington’s coming multibillion dollar budget deficits, the Garfield High School ...