Healey’s hiring freeze — beyond the actual dollars it might save — is, of course, also a wake-up call to lawmakers who are ...

The National Governors Association said the transfers violate their right to retain control over their state units.

Will Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson sign or veto a pile of tax bills and a state budget dependent on them? It’s anyone’s guess.

Will Washington Gov. Bob Ferguson sign or veto a pile of tax bills and a state budget dependent on them? It’s anyone’s guess.

In addition to the laws the governor signed Monday, the Legislature approved a bill to allow immigrants to use paid sick time ...

On the last day of the 2025 legislative session — and following months of intense debate — Washington state lawmakers passed ...

Christopher “Kit” Bond, a Republican who brought billions of dollars in federal funding to Missouri during his four terms in ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson signed a law expanding the list of actions that qualify as animal cruelty and animal fighting, and ...

Bob Ferguson will sign it. That could be a while. Under state law, Washington’s governor has 20 days, not counting Sundays, to sign legislation passed in the final days of a legislative session.

Washington is poised to limit annual residential rent increases with legislation now headed to the governor’s desk. The House and Senate on Sunday, the last day of the legislative session ...