WA Government

The economy continues to be the top issue Washingtonians want the Legislature to address during the upcoming session, new polling released Thursday shows.

Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson unveiled a plan Thursday he says could save Washington $4.4 billion over the next four years as lawmakers prepare to address an estimated budget shortfall of about $12 billion over the same period.

SEATTLE — Chad Magendanz is a computer science teacher who was noodling around with some numbers the other day, and he could scarcely believe what the screen was telling him. He's also a Republican, from Issaquah. So it happened he was looking into some local election data. "It's quite surprising," he told me. "I think these results are a strong signal of where politics is headed in this ...

As president, Jimmy Carter visited Spokane to celebrate one if its best environmental achievements of the last century and to offer help after one of its worst environmental disasters.

WASHINGTON – It was late October 2023, and House Republicans were in a bind.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers is leaving Congress at the end of 2024 after 20 years representing Eastern Washington in the U.S. House of Representatives and a political career that has spanned three decades. After working as an aide to state Rep. Bob Morton, she took over his seat at age 24 and rose to become House Republican leader in Olympia before winning a seat in Congress in 2004.

State Sen. Joe Nguyen will be the director of the Department of Commerce.

Dec. 26—The question of whether the longtime shellfish farm in Burley Lagoon can raise geoducks is inching toward a final answer. Burley Lagoon, a body of saltwater that connects under the Purdy Bay Bridge to Henderson Bay, has been a site for shellfish cultivation since the 1930s, beginning with a farm operated by Tyee Oyster Company. It's now managed by Taylor Shellfish Farms, a giant in ...

An email intended to remain private reveals nine new or higher taxes state Senate Democrats are considering before the 2025 legislative session — plus a couple possible tax cuts.

Gov. Jay Inslee looks back on 12 years in office.

Washington's 2024 Electoral College meeting was part celebration of democracy as it currently exists and part call for a change that would eliminate such gatherings in the future.

Some people compare the presidential race to a marathon. But with the primaries, the conventions, the general election, the Electoral College vote and the official Congressional Count, it's more like a pentathlon.

The narrow passage of a statewide initiative intended to enshrine natural gas use in Washington has sparked an old West standoff – but the involved parties are dueling with legal filings rather than hot steel.

Facing a budget shortfall of $10 billion or more, Democratic leaders in the state Legislature are already talking about potentially raising taxes to forestall cuts to government services. But Gov.-elect Bob Ferguson says he’s not ready to back tax increases just yet. In an interview with Tthe Seattle Times at a North Seattle coffee shop Thursday – his first extensive sit-down since winning the gubernatorial race – Ferguson said he’s scouring state government looking for ways to cut spending before considering taxes.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Since Republicans won control of the House, Senate and White House in last month’s elections, Democrats in Congress have embarked on a series of public and private debates over what went wrong for their party.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – After the U.S. Department of Labor on Tuesday proposed phasing out a program that lets some employers pay disabled workers less than the minimum wage, two Washington lawmakers who have long advocated an end to the program hailed the move.