Throughout his first term, Donald Trump repeatedly threatened to withhold federal disaster aid from Democrat-led states and ...

A former governor of Washington has ripped into the GOP for suggesting there should be strings attached to aid in the wake of ...

A Ferry County woman has been named to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission. Lynn O’Connor, of Kettle Falls, was appointed by Gov. Jay Inslee to replace outgoing commissioner Molly Linville. It ...

Sunny Jay went out the way he came in: mostly sunny. Though with some scattered shade. “I wish I lived in Jay Inslee’s version of Washington, full of puppies and rainbows,” quipped Republican state ...

In addition to Dye’s bill, Sen. Matt Boehnke, R-Kennewick, has filed Senate Bill 5015 to limit the governor’s authority by ...

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Deskcollaboration. Even before ...

There is growing unease among other blue-state Democrats that threats to condition disaster assistance will not be unique to California.

Gov. Bob Ferguson suggested cutting 6% of the state’s budget to offset shortfalls, but lawmakers on both sides said fire suppression funds should not be touched ...

While sorting through files left from 10 years as a legislator, I ran across a photo that shows members of our Clark County delegation filing the bill to reopen discussions about a replacement Interst ...

The relationship between big tech and journalism has grown increasingly complex, exemplified by the impact of Jeff Bezos’ ...

The late John Steinbeck’s literature is not just a critical part of the American literary canon, but intrinsic to American identity itself. With every deeply relatable, ordinary protagonist, Steinbeck ...

The state boosted spending to comply with a ruling in the landmark McCleary case, but the public schools chief says it hasn’t ...