In the years since Trump pulled our nation out of the Paris Agreement in 2017, we in Washington State were advancing major ...

As Jilma Meneses settles into her role at the helm of Catholic Charities of Western Washington, she says her top priority is ...

Charge your phones and computers and all that, maybe scrounge up some candles or extra flashlights if you’ve got ‘em, and you ...

Timothy Pauley, 66, has been described as “a danger to others” whose “release would be absolutely traumatizing to his victim ...

The state faces a severe shortfall, but a proposed package would raise or shift $1 billion in taxes to secure funding for ...

Ferguson and Democrats agree they need to honor state employees' raises outlined in a new collective bargaining agreement. Now the debate turns to furloughs.

Every decision that we made, we were thinking about the people who are impacted by those decisions,” said state Sen. June ...

Former Rep. Barbara Lee has made her ability to steer funds to Oakland — something she did throughout her three decades in Congress — a central pitch of her campaign to become the city’s mayor. Former ...

Washington Senate and House Democrats propose raising taxes and some budget cuts to balance a $13 billion budget deficit.

Washington drivers would see higher gas taxes beginning this summer under transportation funding plans state House and Senate ...

Washington drivers could see the first increase in the state gas tax since 2016 under a bipartisan transportation funding plan unveiled Monday, according to state senators. The proposal includes a ...

The 6-cent per-gallon hike in fiscal year 2026 would bring the gas tax to 55.4 cents — before including the 18.4 cent federal ...