Nearly 5,300 state government and community college employees in Washington won’t be getting a 3% pay raise in July when most other state workers will.

There was a lot of intrigue in Washington state as citizens and businesses waited to see what Gov. Bob Ferguson would do with the record tax increases lawmakers sent to his desk this year. Despite ...

News; Higher education; The government is terminating some Washington State University students’ records that allow them to reside in the U.S. legally, school says ...

The bill, sponsored by State Rep. Jim Walsh (R-Aberdeen), was introduced because, according to the legislation, “most of the state’s government enforcement decisions and discretionary ...

Lobbyists and others in the Washington state Capitol in Olympia, Wash., on April 23, 2025. There were nearly 1,000 lobbyists in Washington state last year.

Flags are always lowered in Washington state following the deaths of a principal federal or state government official, a member of the state’s armed forces while serving on active duty, or a ...

Flags are always lowered in Washington state following the deaths of a principal federal or state government official, a member of the state’s armed forces while serving on active duty, or a ...

In a race against the clock, both chambers of the Washington state legislature approved a $77 billion budget just hours before the legislative session ended.

Flags are always lowered in Washington state following the deaths of a principal federal or state government official, a member of the state’s armed forces while serving on active duty, or a ...

More than a dozen state legislatures are considering bills that would ban the display of most flags in government buildings, including Pride flags — a push that civil rights groups say unfairly ...

If you notice flags at half-staff across Washington state this weekend, it’s not for Armed Forces Day on May 17.. They’ll stay lowered through the weekend, raising on Sunday night or Monday ...

Washington state and United States flags set to half-staff across the state this weekend in memory of State Senator Bill Ramos, who died in April 2025.