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$1 billion shortfall in WA transportation budget imperils projects

January 29, 2025, 7:47am Latest News

Increasing construction costs and falling gas tax revenue have blown a billion dollar hole in the Washington transportation budget, forcing lawmakers to put more money toward projects once promised as… Read story

WA Gov. Jay Inslee’s portrait unveiled as 3rd term comes to an end

January 14, 2025, 5:09pm Northwest

Gov. Jay Inslee’s portrait was unveiled in the State Reception Room to thunderous applause Tuesday afternoon following the three-term governor’s final State of the State address. Read story

Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee looks on during a news conference unveiling the Seattle FIFA World Cup 2026 brand and logo on the Observation Deck at The Space Needle on May 18, 2023, in Seattle.

WA is ‘a light to the world’ Gov. Inslee tells lawmakers in his final State of the State address

Washington State Gov. Jay Inslee looks on during a news conference unveiling the Seattle FIFA World Cup 2026 brand and logo on the Observation Deck at The Space Needle on May 18, 2023, in Seattle.

January 14, 2025, 1:23pm Northwest

Gov. Jay Inslee, who’s led Washington state for the past dozen years, delivered his final State of the State address Tuesday morning. Read story

Sen. Paul Harris, from left, joins Sen. John Braun and Sen. Annette Cleveland during the 2025 Legislative Outlook at the Hilton Vancouver Washington on Thursday morning.

Tax debate hangs heavy over approaching Washington legislative session

Sen. Paul Harris, from left, joins Sen. John Braun and Sen. Annette Cleveland during the 2025 Legislative Outlook at the Hilton Vancouver Washington on Thursday morning.

January 2, 2025, 10:27am Latest News Free

Washington Democrats are preparing for a legislative session where new taxes will be a major focus to solve a multi-billion dollar state budget hole. Read story

FILE - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee delivers his annual State of the State address to a joint legislative session in the House chambers of the state Capitol, Jan. 9, 2024, in Olympia, Wash.

Inslee’s budget proposal would delay state child care expansion

FILE - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee delivers his annual State of the State address to a joint legislative session in the House chambers of the state Capitol, Jan. 9, 2024, in Olympia, Wash.

December 31, 2024, 7:33am Latest News

More Washington children are expected to qualify for public child care and preschool programs in 2025 and 2026. Read story

A montage of the frontpages of some Britain’s newspapers featuring reaction to death of the former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in London, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.

Jimmy Carter is remembered fondly by WA leaders, but he never won here

A montage of the frontpages of some Britain’s newspapers featuring reaction to death of the former U.S. President Jimmy Carter in London, Monday, Dec. 30, 2024.

December 30, 2024, 8:03am Latest News

Washington leaders on Sunday praised President Jimmy Carter for his character, environmental ethic and humanitarian work in the decades since he departed the White House. Read story

Jenna Carodiskey-Wiebe, assistant teacher with ECEAP, right, watches as two-year-old Zakiah Jatta plays with Play-Doh in her classroom at Akin’s Early Learning Center in Auburn, Wash., Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Washington is doing more to help families access and afford child care, but huge gaps remain. Early ECEAP provides free child care and family support services to infants and toddlers from low-income households. But there are only 178 spots funded in the entire state. Some of those spots are at Akin’s early learning center in Auburn. (Ellen M.

Child care and early learning central to debate over how to close WA budget gap

Jenna Carodiskey-Wiebe, assistant teacher with ECEAP, right, watches as two-year-old Zakiah Jatta plays with Play-Doh in her classroom at Akin’s Early Learning Center in Auburn, Wash., Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Washington is doing more to help families access and afford child care, but huge gaps remain. Early ECEAP provides free child care and family support services to infants and toddlers from low-income households. But there are only 178 spots funded in the entire state. Some of those spots are at Akin’s early learning center in Auburn. (Ellen M.

December 26, 2024, 9:07am Latest News Free

Gov. Jay Inslee’s budget proposal offered some hope for child care and early learning advocates who were prepared to fight against deep cuts. Read story

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, center, points at a graph on a monitor Wednesday during an event celebrating clean energy development at the Cowlitz Indian Tribe Transportation Center in Longview.

Inslee says it’s been ‘an astounding 12 years’ as Washington governor

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, center, points at a graph on a monitor Wednesday during an event celebrating clean energy development at the Cowlitz Indian Tribe Transportation Center in Longview.

December 23, 2024, 1:40pm Latest News Free

Jay Inslee knows the one place he won’t be going when he leaves office as Washington’s governor next month. Read story

A coho salmon leaps up Lucia Falls on Oct. 28, 2021, at Lucia Falls Regional Park.

‘These fish and these waters are our responsibility to defend,’ Inslee says in executive order on salmon recovery

A coho salmon leaps up Lucia Falls on Oct. 28, 2021, at Lucia Falls Regional Park.

December 18, 2024, 6:07am Clark County News

Gov. Jay Inslee recently released an executive order that reemphasizes his administration’s support for the state’s salmon recovery efforts as his term enters its final days. Read story

FILE - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee delivers his annual State of the State address to a joint legislative session in the House chambers of the state Capitol, Jan. 9, 2024, in Olympia, Wash.

Outgoing Washington governor suggests ‘wealth tax’ to avoid cuts to education and police

FILE - Washington Gov. Jay Inslee delivers his annual State of the State address to a joint legislative session in the House chambers of the state Capitol, Jan. 9, 2024, in Olympia, Wash.

December 17, 2024, 1:56pm Latest News

Outgoing Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is proposing a tax on wealth above $100 million in hopes of plugging a budget shortfall and averting cuts to education, mental health services and police. Read story