According to lawmakers, this would affect some 4,300 Washingtonians, with the revenue generated going to public schools.

Democrats in the Washington State Senate resurrected a wealth tax on Friday, with the Ways & Means Committee giving a scaled-back version of the legislation a do-pass recommendation on a party-line ...

A bill that aims to address housing supply and affordability in Washington by lowering parking requirements for new residential and commercial development passed through the state Legislature and will ...

Van Hollen, 66, got his start in politics as a staffer for former Maryland U.S. Sen. Charles Mathias in the 1980s, going on ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson said earlier this month that he wouldn’t sign a budget that relied on a large, “untested” new wealth tax.

With fewer journalists covering the Capitol in Olympia and other measures, being an informed voter is not easy.

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson balked at Democratic lawmakers’ latest tax package on Thursday, calling it “too risky” given the ...

The plan, approved Wednesday in Olympia, eliminates a cap that limited state funding districts could receive and boosts ...

In the last days of the 2025 legislative session, Washington State lawmakers are scrambling to pass a gas tax that would even ...

Washington lawmakers are on the cusp of eliminating a special education funding cap, which critics said was straining school ...

Moving away from a politically unpopular tax on the state's richest people, lawmakers float a different way to balance the ...

Ed Martin, the Trump administration’s nominee to serve as US attorney for Washington, DC, failed to report hundreds of media ...