GOP lawmakers hope an obscure committee can repeal state rules protecting transgender access to the bathroom of their choice.
On Sunday, at Heatherwood Middle School in Mill Creek, they made their presence felt at the convention of the Snohomish County Democratic Party, turning a usually bland affair of process and pep rally into a rowdy rebuke of three of the party’s torchbearers in Congress.
The governor and machinist union are sounding much more open to the idea of tying Boeing’s tax breaks to job numbers.
A coalition led by statewide labor groups filed an initiative Monday to push the minimum wage to $13.50 an hour…
Gov. Jay Inslee is beginning the last year of his first term with every expectation of winning re-election in November….
Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee is developing an initiative to curb gun-related violence in Washington through executive order. “We are finalizing…
Eight lawmakers entrusted with drafting a school funding plan in line with the tenets of the state Constitution and dictates…
OLYMPIA — Washington will hire more rail inspectors and let fire departments know ahead of time when train shipments of…
State lawmakers learned Wednesday they are getting a raise. So will Gov. Jay Inslee. And even indicted state Auditor Troy…
Cap-and-trade seemed dead and buried among the year’s fallen legislative ideas — until it wasn’t this week. Its adherents in…
By the end of next week, Washington will learn how often tank cars of oil siphoned from North Dakota’s Bakken…
Democratic and Republican lawmakers are finding themselves once again falling down a rabbit hole in their Sisyphean efforts to cure…
Gov. Jay Inslee’s call to raise money for schools by closing tax breaks put the education funding debate back in…
Pyrotechnic spectacles aren’t the only way of welcoming a new year. There are bear dances in Moldavia, pickle drops in…
The Majority Coalition Caucus of the state Senate is about to turn 1 year old, and what an interesting year…
This story was originally published in our cousin paper, The Everett Herald. OLYMPIA — Tim Eyman may wind up losing…
Efforts to require labeling of genetically-engineered foods are not over despite voters’ rejection of Initiative 522. The Yes on 522…
Initiative 522 is failing to pass for more reasons than just the $22 million opponents shelled out to defeat it….
This article was first published in the Everett Herald. Tim Eyman isn’t talking much about his latest initiative but the…
OLYMPIA — Tim Eyman’s thousands of supporters throughout the state may get a chance next year to put the anti-tax…
