|
Oregonians are on track to overwhelmingly reject hikes to the state’s gas tax, payroll tax and vehicle registration and title fees that would have gone toward funding the maintenance and operations …
more
By Mia Maldonado / The Oregon Capitol Chronicle
|
5/20/26
|
|
A new effort to force states to affirm the Trump administration’s views on DEI, transgender athletes and immigration when signing contracts with the U.S. Forest Service is threatening millions of …
more
By Alex Brown / Stateline
|
5/20/26
|
|
An original member of Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson’s executive leadership team, who played a key role in boosting the administration’s cooperation with tribes, resigned last month for a private …
more
By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
|
5/20/26
|
|
University of Washington Professor of Atmospheric Sciences Cliff Mass says the Washington Department of Ecology should “definitively correct misinformation being pushed” about a pending drought …
more
By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
|
5/20/26
|
|
A week after Let’s Go Washington launched an initiative campaign aimed at repealing the newly passed income tax, the organization tells The Center Square “more people have signed up to receive …
more
By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
|
5/19/26
|
|
A coalition of Democratic attorneys general and governors sued the U.S. Department of Education on Tuesday over forthcoming regulations that will impose new borrowing limits for students pursuing …
more
By Shauneen Miranda / States Newsroom
|
5/19/26
|
|
The Trump administration on Tuesday launched an investigation into Washington state’s practice of housing transgender women in its women’s prison.
In a letter to Gov. Bob Ferguson , …
more
By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
|
5/19/26
|
|
The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) announced this week that it will transition away from accepting cash for license product purchases at its offices next month due to a new state …
more
By The Chronicle staff
|
5/19/26
|
|
A new state regulatory filing on Monday revealed that Starbucks is laying off 252 more workers across its Seattle headquarters.
The latest filing with the state Employment Security …
more
By Randy Diamond | The Center Square
|
5/19/26
|
|
Washington State Supreme Court Chief Justice Debra Stephens declined to comment on communications obtained by The Center Square from the State Attorney General’s Office speculating at the time that …
more
By TJ Martinell | The Center Square
|
5/19/26
|
|
Let there be light.
When Washington state lawmakers return to Olympia for the 2027 legislative session, natural light will again shine on the House and Senate chambers.
Construction …
more
By Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
|
5/19/26
|
|
In an encouraging sign for road safety, traffic deaths in Washington fell significantly for the second year in a row in 2025, according to state data released Tuesday.
Washington saw 659 …
more
By Jake Goldstein-Street / Washington State Standard
|
5/19/26
|
|
A federal judge has rejected a request to ditch political maps for Washington’s Legislature that he approved two years ago.
Now, opponents are waiting to see if the U.S. Supreme Court will …
more
5/18/26
|
|
Theo Angelis is Washington’s newest state Supreme Court justice.
While he has been on the court for about six weeks, Angelis was formally sworn in Monday in a ceremony at the Temple of Justice …
more
By Jake Goldstein-Street / The Washington State Standard
|
5/18/26
|
|
For the first time since The Center Square obtained exclusive documents revealing how Democratic supporters of Washington’s new income tax worked behind the scenes with the Washington Attorney …
more
By Carleen Johnson / The Center Square
|
5/18/26
|
|
The Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) released its annual Forest Health Highlights report last week following a 2025 survey season defined by a period of unprecedented structural …
more
5/18/26
|
|
U.S. Rep. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, D-Skamania, last week joined with colleagues Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside, and Rick Larsen, D-Bellingham, on the End Fentanyl Trafficking with Local Task Forces …
more
By The Chronicle staff
|
5/18/26
|
|
For more than a year, Rep. Tarra Simmons has been dogged by allegations she improperly used her cachet as a lawmaker and cash from her prior campaigns to assist two nonprofit organizations, one of …
more
By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
|
5/18/26
|
|
Despite sitting $34.5 billion short on a 2016 voter-approved system expansion, Sound Transit still has millions to spend on billboard advertising.
The Board of Directors will consider punting …
more
Tim Clouser | The Center Square
|
5/16/26
|
|
A Seattle City Council Committee is directing Mayor Katie Wilson to make a recommendation by Aug. 1 as to the fate of the troubled King County Regional Homeless Authority.
The resolution …
more
By Randy Diamond | The Center Square
|
5/16/26
|
