Senate Bill 5801 passed in a 31 to 18 vote and if signed into law, it would increase by two percent annually to account for ...

The Washington Senate has approved a $78.5 billion operating budget plan designed to protect essential services and ...

A tense debate over the rights of public school students and their parents took another twist in the Washington Legislature ...

Washington state lawmakers are seeking greater oversight of private detention facilities like the ICE center in Tacoma, as ...

As Washington struggles to fill a $15 billion budget shortfall, there is a proposal for pay cuts for state employees.

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

It’s more lackluster news for Democratic lawmakers and the new governor who are already trying to close a sizable shortfall.

Explore the new $80B budget plan from Washington Senate, focusing on tax hikes for the wealthy and corporations.

For his debut testimony before the Washington state Legislature, Attorney General Nick Brown picked a bill to require a new state permit to purchase guns.

Washington Senate Democrats are proposing new taxes on the wealthy to combat a projected $13 billion budget deficit.

Democrats in charge of the State Senate and House released their separate operating budget proposals Monday, detailing how ...

A proposal to turn the City of Austin into the ‘District of Austin’ — essentially under state control — failed this week in ...