Even before taking office last week, Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson had proposed $4 billion in spending cuts. That was on top ...

The Washington Policy Center said Wednesday that it is suing the state Departments of Ecology and Commerce over the agencies’ ...

Nine days into the 2025 session, majority Democrats in the Washington State Legislature have yet to tip their hand on several ...

A new UW hospital opened this spring to provide desperately needed mental health beds. But a dispute over legal ...

The Washington Policy Center claims staff at the Department of Ecology released data only through 2021 and not through 2023, ...

With so much federal backtracking already underway, all eyes now turn toward states like ours to lead the effort against ...

Even before being sworn into office, Gov. Bob Ferguson managed to raise some hackles on both sides of the political aisle.

President-elect Donald Trump demonstrated in his first term a willingness to withhold and otherwise weaponize relief funding ...

“The Fourteenth Amendment has never been interpreted to extend citizenship universally to everyone born within the United ...

The bill now heads for the House Appropriations Committee and Senate Bill 5222, the Senate companion to the House proposal, ...

This story first appeared in the Washington State Standard. Twenty-two states states sued the Trump administration Tuesday over the president’s executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship.

SEATTLE — It’s been five years since the country’s first COVID-19 outbreak was recorded in Washington state. Health officials announced the first documented case in the U.S. in Snohomish County on Jan ...