VANCOUVER, Wash. — A brand-new behavioral health campus in Vancouver is nearly ready to open — with landscaping and signage in place — but will sit empty for the foreseeable future after lawmakers cut ...

As the Trump administration cut billions of dollars in federal funding to scientific research, thousands of scientists in the ...

As the 2026 midterms loom, voters are restless and eager to penalize those in power. Every election starting with 2006, with ...

Senate Republicans based their projection off Democrats’ state tax package, including legislation boosting business and occupation (B&O) taxes, a sales tax expansion, the new Tesla tax, capital gains ...

In both Augusta and Washington, D.C., we see a new kind of legislator — or, to be more accurate, a new kind of legislating — ...

The House of Representatives recently passed the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act," a significant piece of legislation that includes tax cuts, increased military funding, and strengthened border ...

The entire $7 million a year grant from the Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction was cut. This grant allowed the ...

A new report is shedding more light on the states where proposed Medicaid cuts making their way through Congress will impact ...

If passed as written, people would need jobs to qualify for Medicaid health insurance and SNAP, or food stamps.

Inheriting a $16 billion budget shortfall was not the way I wanted to start as governor,” Bob Ferguson said Tuesday.

Before Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson signed the next state budget on Tuesday, he vetoed a few dozen spending provisions ...

As Washington County moves forward with its $2 billion budget for the 2026 fiscal year, the government’s financial woes are ...