The Washington state bill to name the official dinosaur also was a school kids’ project, originally proposed in 2020 by fourth graders, according to Democratic state Rep. Melanie Morgan, the ...

Washington boasts an extensive canon of official state symbols, including state tree, the Western hemlock, and state fruit, the apple. More obscurely, Washington also has an official state ...

The Washington Legislature has a lot of prickly problems on its plate. But there's a new one that may be the prickliest of all: Should lawmakers designate an official state cactus?

Latin Times. Washington State Raid Uncovers Weapons Cache, Nazi Symbols Linked to White Nationalist Efforts. Posted: June 5, 2025 | Last updated: June 8, 2025 ...

EDITORS/NEWS DIRECTORS: When state legislatures convene, it doesn’t always have to be about taxes, tariffs and heart-wrenching testimonies from constituents calling for policy changes. The ...

Washington state voters may have just saved our long-term-care future After a ballot initiative fails, an experimental state program will continue Last Updated: Nov. 9, 2024 at 2:42 p.m. ET First ...

Washington state has carried out five executions since the US Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976, according to data from the Death Penalty Information Center.

Ever since Lexington's District 47 Rep. Bryant Clark had been coming to the Mississippi State Capitol as a child and later as a lawmaker, symbols of the old Confederacy had loomed on flag poles ...

In 2022 Washington state nabbed the fast-growing pastime of pickleball as a state sport (pointing to its origins in Bainbridge Island in 1965). But not all symbols pander to popularity.

Other vestiges were also placed by the state nearly 100 years ago in Washington, D.C.’s Statuary Hall, displaying Confederate figures Jefferson Davis and James Z. George.

New Jersey has a state fruit — the blueberry — but not a state muffin. However, if a young woman there has her way, the blueberry muffin will take its place among the Garden State's symbols ...