On the last day of the 2025 legislative session — and following months of intense debate — Washington state lawmakers passed a final operating budget. Legislators’ work may be done for the time being, ...

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.

Words that mean a lot there but nowhere else. One of those is reconciliation. CBS News chief Washington correspondent Major ...

The Budget Committee is already off to a tense start, with several holdouts, including Reps. Chip Roy and Ralph Norman, storming out of the hearing.

During a visit to the Lewiston Tribune on Thursday, Sen. Schoesler said he’d give the overall session a “D” grade. On the ...

Despite urging from President Trump, Republican budget hawks refused to back sweeping legislation expanding tax cuts and ...

Washington state’s budget package, the nearly $78 billion operating budget itself and five revenue bills that raise taxes by ...

The GOP's "big beautiful bill" was voted down Friday in the House Budget Committee amid conservative Republican opposition.

The final 2025–27 operating budget for Washington state will not include funding for the Imagination Library of Washington, ...

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Gov. Tim Walz and leaders of the Minnesota Legislature announced a hard-fought budget deal Thursday, ...

The Washington State Hospital Association says federal cuts to Medicaid may cause hospitals and health care providers in rural areas to lose millions of dollars.