WA Government

Mar. 27—Washington has passed legislation intended to safeguard its public libraries, after a small city in the southeastern corner of the state nearly became the first community in the nation to shutter its library over the book battles that have engulfed schools, libraries, cities and states across the country. The legislation, which passed both the House and Senate with overwhelming ...

Is it a bird, a plane? No, it’s a drone spraying paint over graffiti along Washington’s state roads.

Mar. 15—OLYMPIA — Toby Nixon, a longtime government transparency advocate and former state legislator, has been tapped to lead a committee that has been toiling in relative futility to scrutinize the hundreds of exemptions to the state's public disclosure laws. Since Washington voters approved the state's public disclosure laws by ballot measure in 1972, legislators have passed hundreds of ...