This statue symbolizes our great state of Washington,” Willie Frank III said at a Nov. 13 news conference announcing the ...

Relocating it in the building will be difficult and costly. Meanwhile, a statue of Billy Frank Jr. could arrive next fall and ...

The grand ambition: to complete a 3,700-mile rail trail that connects Washington to Washington, D.C. It's 55% done, but ...

Residents of Olympia, Washington, rejected Proposition 1) on Tuesday, with 4,857 votes against and 3,821 for. The proposition would have codified the Workers' Bill of Rights Initiative, which sought ...

Authorities say social media posts directed at Gov. Bob Ferguson featured references to firearms and Ferguson’s security detail and photos of the governor’s home. Prosecutors allege a Washington state ...

While Tuesday’s election was predominantly focused on city and county races, voters in six legislative districts in western Washington also decided who should represent them at the state Capitol. The ...

Before interstate highways streamlined travel, routes like US-99 (largely replaced by I-5 in Washington) featured countless eye-catching oddities designed to entice travelers to pull over, spend some ...

A break-in at the state Capitol last month caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in damage, according to an updated ...

OLYMPIA – Washington state federal workers and others affected by the federal government shutdown can attend a free virtual webinar on October 30 from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. The Employment Security ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. - The Washington Employment Security Department (ESD) has announced a change in unemployment benefits call center hours as part of a 90-day pilot project. ESD said in a release that it ...

Democratic state senators are eyeing an income tax on millionaires as they seek to overcome Washington’s persisting budget shortfall. Individuals and households would pay a 9.9% tax on adjusted gross ...