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?