The Washington State Sentencing Guidelines Commission has voted 7–2–3 (seven in favor, two against, and three abstentions) to ...

Democratic state Sen. Noel Frame traces her interest in tax policy to her time as a teenager in the 1990s, concerned about scarce funding for her school district in Battle […] ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – Concerns are rising as the Washington State Legislature decided to cut the wildfire prevention budget in half, a move that has sparked criticism from the Department of Lands. The ...

Democratic state senators are eyeing an income tax on millionaires as they seek to overcome Washington’s persisting budget shortfall. Individuals and households would pay a 9.9% tax on adjusted gross ...

Washington state lawmakers next year are set to again discuss whether public sector unions can bargain over their employers’ ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Washington state Senate Republican Leader John Braun announced Tuesday that he will run for Congress in 2026, challenging U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in the 3rd Congressional ...

A Senate proposal to sell between 2 and 3 million acres of federal land in the western U.S. has met with significant push-back from environmental groups and the public. But after a new ruling, changes ...

OLYMPIA -- The Washington state Senate has unanimously approved a bill that sets up steps on what should be done if legal amounts of marijuana are "inadvertently" left at stores that have pharmacies.