A school board subcommittee is recommending the School District's tax-cap compliant Fiscal Year 2026 $246 million budget proposal be approved by the full board next week. Members of the Finance and ...

The State Department has told Congress that it plans to sell more than $7 billion in weapons to Israel, including thousands ...

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson wants to slash government spending by 6%. He calculates this will save roughly $1.8 billion in the next two-year state budget and erase about a third of a projected shortf ...

I was interested to see the news that recent events will very likely push back “breakeven” point for the River & Rowing Museum by at least a year (Standard, January 24). This is not welcome news for ...

Months after a tense election cycle to repeal the state’s two latest school choice laws, the former state senator who wrote those bills and the current president of ...

Gov. Greg Abbott, in his bid to curb Texas’ high property taxes, wants Texas voters to have the final say on any property tax hike.

An administrator at the University of Iowa often said, “The two most important pieces of legislation for women are: the Nineteenth amendment (women’s right to vote) and Title IX (civil rights ...

The ban came from no less than the superintendent. Now, the ACLU is involved and Cleveland County finds itself in a fight ...

The task force was supposed to give recommendations to a council committee this month, but likely won't reconvene to finish ...

Just days after Governor Greg Abbott laid out his priorities for lawmakers in his State of the State address, Senate lawmakers pushed through one of his top priorities.

Australia will be spared from Donald Trump’s latest and harshest tariff move that will rock the global trading system.