“They were paying such a small portion of the cost that the increase was going to look large,” said Derek Young, interim director of the Washington State Association of Counties. “In a ...

WASHINGTON STATE — The Washington Counties Insurance Fund acknowledges tens of thousands of dollars of public funding has gone missing due to a lack of oversight. It comes after the State ...

Washington will more than double the money it sends to counties for public defenders in an attempt to reduce strain on the legal system, state lawmakers decided in the two-year budget they passed ...