ESB 5041 extends unemployment benefits to striking or locked-out workers. Depending on the strike date, benefits would start 15 to 21 days after the strike begins ...

All four Idaho Republican congressmen want the U.S. Small Business Administration , or SBA, to move its Pacific Northwest ...

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

Gov. Bob Ferguson has styled himself a fiscal reformer, but he led the way on a budget gimmick that ignores some $500 million ...

A new state law caps increases in rent for many tenants across Washington. As tenants welcome new stability, landlords worry ...

As reported by the Washington Research Council: “In both budgets, compensation increases for state employees and collective bargaining agreements with non-state employees make up the largest share of ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Two former inmates, who each spent decades in prison, helped pass a new law aimed at reforming Washington’s clemency system and expanding opportunities for early release.

Washington State Governor Bob Ferguson signed Senate Bill 5375 into law on May 2, which mandates religious leaders including, ...

A bill that was approved by overwhelming majorities in both chambers of the Legislature to study the primary cost drivers for ...

Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson had pledged to spend $100 million to hire new police officers as part of his first budget, but ...

For the panelists at Thursday’s Washington Policy Center public forum on the future of the state’s environmental policy, ...