Migrant children as young as 2 are showing up at immigration courts nationwide, many without attorneys, to try make their case to stay in the US and avoid deportation.

Washington won't tap into a Trump administration database aimed at purging noncitizen voters, with Secretary of State Steve Hobbs calling it flawed.

Seattle internet enjoyers proclaimed over the weekend they would find a new quirky establishment from which to buy their rubber chickens when several viral posts exposed that the owner of novelty shop Archie McPhee, Mark Pahlow, gave $10,000 to Let’s Go Washington (LGW), a right-wing campaign promoting anti-LGBTQ+ initiatives and a social-services-starving repeal to Washington's Millionaires Tax. Pahlow publicly apologized, claiming he somehow missed all the anti-queer garbo LGW has been spewing

Seattle School Boardmember Joe Mizrahi makes the case against the three statewide initiatives put forward by MAGA hedge fund manager Brian Heywood that will starve government of resources and force sc...

Rep. Joel McEntire, R-Cathlamet, has been ordered to stop communicating with a healthcare worker, one of McEntire’s constituents a judge found he has harassed.

SEATTLE — A federal judge in Seattle on Tuesday tossed the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Washington seeking the state’s voter rolls, in line with many rulings across the country. This marks…

Medicare's new AI-enabled program denied more claims than it approved during a rocky rollout, leaving patients who were in pain to wait out a long appeals process.

Washington faces three MAGA-backed ballot initiatives this November, all designed to have devastating impacts on K-12 schoolchildren. We must defend Washington against these initiatives this November.

Four states have midterm ballot measures on the issue. Washington’s would go further than any law in the country.

It's likely just the start of tens of millions of dollars that groups will spend on the midterm race to help determine which party controls the House next year.

The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s controversial plan to change how mail ballots are sent to voters across the country, rebuffing a proposal that election officials warned w...

A quarter million Washingtonians who get their insurance through the state’s exchange face another year of double-digit rate increases.

A new analysis predicts Washington’s millionaires tax will be paid by more households and bring in much more money than previously assumed.

Five races for seats on Washington’s state Supreme Court are set to get much more attention over the next two months.

The ballot measure in Pierce County follows controversies surrounding Sheriff Keith Swank, at a time Washington is grappling with poor oversight over law enforcement.

Initiative 645 would make it harder for Gov. Bob Ferguson and lawmakers in Olympia to effectively govern the state. Voters should say no.

President Donald Trump and the Republicans keep maligning mail-in voting, saying it’s slipshod and corrupt. But one such local election just got a perfect score, Danny Westneat writes.

If passed, I-645 would eliminate $13 billion from the state budget, resulting in significant cuts to programs families rely on like K–12 education and healthcare.

President Donald Trump and the Republicans keep maligning mail-in voting, saying it’s slipshod and corrupt. But one such local election just got a perfect score, Danny Westneat writes.

Over 20,000 ballots in Washington’s primary election last month were rejected because they came in too late, thousands more than in 2024.

If this were a “Washington problem“ it would be worth studying as a pressing issue to be resolved by the electorate, informed with science. But it is not.

WASHINGTON — A developing trade war with Canada could bite Republicans ahead of the upcoming midterm elections as voters worry about rising prices and industries in states with competitive races…