The money will pay for a wide range of work, from a closed Pierce County bridge to a highway expansion on the east side of ...

For lawmakers, the price spikes underscore the fragile backdrop of this year’s budget negotiations, which are unfolding amid ...

House and Senate budget writers have unveiled a supplemental operating budget deal that relies on a hotly debated income tax ...

Democrats and Republicans argued over whether spending and taxing plans will make Washington more affordable. Lawmakers will ...

This year’s short legislative session came to a close Thursday after lawmakers approved a supplemental operating budget.

Facing a near supermajority, the chair of the Washington State Republican Party has his eyes on five districts heading into ...

In the final hours of the 2026 legislative session, majority Democrats pushed through controversial legislation that creates a Washington state transmission authority within the Commerce Department to ...

The money will pay for a wide range of work, from a closed Pierce County bridge to a highway expansion on the east side of the state.

Democrats in the Washington Legislature released a budget deal Wednesday balanced with one-time maneuvers, siphoning of rainy day reserves and slashing of child care funding.

Depending on who you ask, this year’s short 60-day session of the Washington state Legislature was either history-making, troubling, or both.

The billionaire newspaper owner, dissatisfied by years of losses, wants the newsroom to double productivity with half its ...