Washington State Senate Majority Leader Jamie Pedersen, D-Seattle, is standing by comments he made last week to a Fox News ...

Six Grangers represented Klickitat County in Olympia at the Capitol on February 4 as part of Washington State Grange ...

Six school districts in Washington state have bond measures on the February ballot and it could be easier for those sorts of measures to pass in the future. State law currently requires school bonds, ...

The state’s current hourly minimum wage of $16.66 is the second highest in the country. Some say it still lags the cost of living.

The latest beef in Olympia? Cow burps, farts, and poops. Washington lawmakers are considering a bill that seeks to gather better data on the scale and scope of methane emissions released by dairies an ...

As a multibillion-dollar budget hole looms and costs of living increase, Washington lawmakers are again debating whether to ...

"As with previously introduced similar bills, I will defeat these efforts, which will only strengthen our case for statehood, ...

The most pertinent deadline for legislation is Feb. 21, the cutoff date for non-fiscal committees in the legislature to read ...

A bill to identify and incentivize retrofitting unreinforced masonry (URM) buildings was referred last week to the state House's Appropriations Committee for consideration.

Transportation funding at the state level is facing a billion-dollar budget shortfall, The Seattle Times reported. At the local level, despite comprising between 30 to 35 percent of the roads across ...

A proposed bill in the legislature could charge drivers for how much they drive in order to fund transportation projects. Supporters of the idea point to declining ...

State law currently requires school bonds, used to pay for building maintenance and new construction, receive more than 60% of the vote to pass. House Bill 4201 would lower the threshold to a simple ...