Government

Domestic workers would be protected against retaliation by employers as well as threats or other intimidation tactics, under a bill being considered by the Senate.

House considers law to allow sports betting at tribal casinos.

Bond elections that fail won’t be allowed before voters again for a minimum of 11 months under proposed legislation that’s heading to the full House.

A federal judge in Washington state is considering whether to block President Donald Trump from diverting billions of dollars from military construction projects to build sections of border wall along the Southern border.

The Senate approved a bill requiring all public schools offer medically accurate, comprehensive sex education geared to children at all grade levels.

Some Senate Republicans want to take a market-based approach to homelessness by creating more affordable housing as well as crack down on criminal activity.

Sen. Patty Murray joined other senior Democratic members of the Senate on Tuesday morning in critiquing the GOP rules for the Senate’s impeachment trial.

Gun control advocates will put their weight behind an effort to restrict high-capacity magazines as the 2020 Legislature considers a series of bills on firearms.

A federal appeals court on Friday dismissed a lawsuit by 21 young people who claimed the U.S. government’s climate policies and reliance on fossil fuels harms them, jeopardizes their future and violates their constitutional rights, potentially dealing a fatal blow to a long-running case that activists saw as an important front in the war against environmental degradation.

After a week in which he was officially removed from his committee assignments and moved to the back of the House floor, Rep. Matt Shea got a welcome more akin to a rock star Friday morning at a gun rights rally on the steps of the Capitol.

A state agency didn’t have the legal authority to order Washington utilities and oil refineries to come up with ways to reduce the pollution their products eventually emit when used by other people.

Sen. Maria Cantwell and Rep. Russ Fulcher, in the hours Thursday morning before the Senate’s impeachment trial was scheduled to begin, said they hoped additional witnesses would be called to testify.

Senate Democrats revive the proposed ban on single-use plastic grocery bags.

Washington’s senior senator said in an interview on Capitol Hill on Wednesday morning she anticipated there would be some deal-making on witnesses in the impeachment trial that is scheduled to begin next week.