When the Legislature gavels into session at noon Monday, lawmakers will have 60 days to address the most pressing issues ...

Government officials laid off close to 900 of NIOSH’s 1,000 employees. The layoffs were part of the Republican president’s ...

In June, the Washington Supreme Court reduced caseload standards for public defenders by almost two-thirds. Funding is in ...

Petitioners, including two former county employees, are concerned the 144-acre project will cause unexamined consequences for ...

Washington state and Snohomish County politics were defined by high-stakes decisions, legal battles, fiscal pressures and ...

A judge rules against an injunction to halt Washington's new 95% nicotine tax, impacting small businesses statewide.

Police are investigating a deadly multi-car crash in Everett that killed two people and injured three others on Friday. Everett firefighters closed 19th Avenue Southeast for what they described as a ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson has thrown his support behind an income tax on millionaires, backing what would be a seismic shift in Washington’s tax code. At a budget news conference Tuesday, Ferguson endorsed a ...

Washington state hasn’t really had an income tax for nearly a century, but that might be about to change. Washington state hasn’t really had an income tax for nearly a century, but that might be about ...

(The Center Square) – State Rep. Jeremie Dufault, R-Selah, has introduced two bills for the upcoming 2026 legislative session to roll back some of the recently implemented tax hikes adopted by ...

EVERETT — Washington congressional lawmakers are seeking answers from oil giant BP following the Olympic Pipeline’s 2,300-gallon leak east of Everett in November, which caused an almost 2-week ...

OLYMPIA – Ahead of the November 1932 election, organizers in Washington gathered enough signatures to place an initiative on the ballot asking whether the state should adopt a graduated tax on ...