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Central Washington University President Jim Wohlpart is eliminating the Vice President for University Relations position and absorbing some of the tasks himself after reviewing the biennial budget ...

OLYMPIA – Two Spokane City Council Members are among city and county officials across Washington calling on the Legislature ...

Unsustainable bargaining agreements, unreliable tax ideas and plundering the state's rainy-day fund each have inauspicious ...

Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, a program that provides a free book each month to children from birth until they turn 5 ...

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 ...

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

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

Washington state Gov. Bob Ferguson issued an order Tuesday afternoon canceling the planned release of convicted triple ...

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