The Trump administration wants to rethink FEMA's role in disasters. So far it's mostly 'caused a lot of confusion.' ...

Jay Inslee, a Democrat, was governor of Washington from 2013 to 2025. It is a rare moment when a single action can address ...

President and CEO of American Forests, the oldest forest conservation non-governmental organization in the U.S., Jad Daley, ...

The new governor should take his time in reviewing a budget that includes tax increases that will raise the cost of living in ...

Karen Tumulty writes, rather more delightfully than the situation requires, that it’s “a ticklish time” to be in such a ...

The new governor put some clear guard rails around the Legislature's budget debate. But his close-to-the-vest style has left ...

Governor Ferguson has commented that he will have a difficult time backing a budget plan that involves the level of taxes ...

“We saw that idea ripen this year, to the point that Gov. Inslee and both chambers used versions of the idea to base initial drafts of the budget.” Pedersen called the vote “a significant ...

“The Governor’s leadership in Washington State alone would merit this award,” Daley said. But Inslee “went a pivotal step further” in 2017—when Trump first tried to withdraw from the ...

OLYMPIA – An Olympia-based conservation organization has filed a lawsuit against Gov. Bob Ferguson over his reappointment of ...

Trump did not make a major disaster declaration, blocking recovery funds for the state following deadly storm, but the state ...

After Republicans and Democrats spent three and a half months hashing out policy differences in the state capital, debates that have frequently lasted into the early hours of the morning, it was ...