Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) vetoed a bill that would have honored the late conservative activist Charlie Kirk on license plates in the Grand Canyon State.  “Charlie Kirk’s assassination is ...

Racks of servers inside an AWS data center in 2023. (AWS Photo / Noah Berger) Lisa Karstetter grew up in Eastern Washington’s agricultural country. By the mid-2000s, she was running the Quincy Valley ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday erased the U.S. government’s ability to fight climate-changing pollution from motor vehicles and other sources. It is now official U.S. policy that ...

Legislation to regulate the use of automated license plate readers amid concerns over federal immigration agents accessing data the devices collect, passed the Washington state Senate on Wednesday. It ...

Ryan Frost is the director of budget and tax policy at Washington Policy Center. Mark Harmsworth is the small-business director at Washington Policy Center and a former Republican Washington state ...

Budget talks, proposals to lower the legal blood‑alcohol limit, and rules on police face coverings are drawing much of the attention this legislative session. But lawmakers are also considering a few ...

Hundreds of demonstrators swarmed the steps of Washington’s state Capitol Monday, waving signs saying, “Tax the rich — they can afford it,” and, “Blue collar over billionaires.” “We have to fix our ...

Washington state residents may soon be forced to produce IDs before getting onto websites with pornographic content. Within the state's House of Representatives, Rep. Mari Leavitt introduced House ...

(TNS) — After years of blown budgets and missed deadlines, Washington state’s two biggest technology projects may be showing signs of life. Monday saw the restart of a stalled upgrade to the aging ...

To Spokane County Sheriff John Nowels, the installation of automatic license plate reader cameras has been revolutionary. Flock Safety, a leading supplier of these cameras, brags that they’re used by ...

SEATTLE — Minnesota and Illinois have filed a lawsuit against the federal government seeking to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “enforcement surges." The legal move is drawing ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. – The 2026 legislative session in Washington State is set to begin on January 12, with the state budget and infrastructure taking center stage. Governor Bob Ferguson has introduced a ...