Students, parents, educators, and activists with the advocacy group Billion Dollar Bake Sale gathered outside the Legislative ...

Lawmakers in Olympia are considering a bill that would require movie theaters to offer captioning for all movies that have it ...

A proposal to require a permit to purchase firearms is the latest gun legislation to be introduced in this year’s Legislature ...

More than 500 people braved the cold with their monarch butterfly signs to support undocumented immigrant rights during a ...

The Washington State Patrol responded to a head-on collision just west of Rainier in southeast Thurston County Sunday afternoon that sent both drivers and one passenger to the hospital with serious ...

Shortly after being elected, Gov. Bob Ferguson convened a diverse transition team to advise him on priorities like health ...

Sen. Deb Krishnadasan, appointed to replace Emily Randall, is quickly filling up her calendar as she navigates her first term ...

People waved flags from various countries and carried colorful monarch butterfly decorations as they chanted, “Refugees are ...

A new bill before the Washington State Legislature seeks to protect LGBTQ+ individuals in state prisons from invasive strip searches.

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All 50 states were ranked based on key metrics, including retirement-friendliness, financial factors and access to quality ...

Senate Republican Leader John Braun sponsored the proposed seismic shift, which would turn Olympia’s public liberal arts ...