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

Senate Democratic lawmakers in the Washington Legislature released a $78.5 billion state spending proposal Monday that includes increased funding for K-12 special education for the next two years and ...

Washington state lawmakers discuss budget proposals focusing on maintaining programs and addressing economic challenges.

Senators want to increase the gas tax by 6 cents, and representatives want a 9-cent hike to help cover a $1 billion deficit.

Washington Senate and House Democrats propose raising taxes and some budget cuts to balance a $13 billion budget deficit.

Ralph Munro, Washington’s longest-serving secretary of state and a moderate Republican who achieved unusually broad ...

An advocate for health care and low-income housing, Frank Chopp was the longest-serving House speaker in the state's history ...

Since its founding in 30 years ago, TVW has provided nearly 83 million hours of hearings, floor votes, court cases and news ...

Sunshine Week is just a few days each year. But the public’s right to know remains ever constant in our messy, and sometimes heated but functional democracy. Renee Radcliff Sinclair, a former state ...

As the Washington State House passed House Bill 1296, which critics say undermines parental rights within the K-12 system, ...

The U.S. Department of Education has warned several universities in Washington state that they could lose out on federal funding due to possible violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act ...