Washington state faces deficit spending by 2028 as lawmakers just hit taxpayers with the state’s largest combined tax ...

A special income-tax deduction for most Americans 65 and older adds to the squeeze on programs for younger people.

Duke Ellington’s birth certificate, Frederick Douglass’s will, and other documents in the DC archives are in a building that ...

Washington joined a lawsuit challenging the abrupt withholding of nearly $7 billion in federal funding for educational programs.

When policymakers in Washington talk about “efficiency,” “reforms” or “cost savings,” it’s easy to forget who pays the price.

Faith leaders will take their protests over federal budget cuts to the South, which has high poverty rates and many who they ...

Chairman Phil Mendelson called the DC Council budget proposal, which calls for $1 billion in funding for the new football stadium, a fair compromise.

Steve Ghan, a retired PNNL scientist and a member of Friends of PNNL, told the Herald the impacts of jobs that would be lost ...

DC Council votes to fund ranked-choice voting initiative; debates tipped wage compromise and postpones stadium funding.

A New York Times analysis shows spikes in immigration arrests across the country since Donald Trump started his second term ...

A few years ago, a woman brought her new baby to Vanessa Behan, a Spokane child care center and family resource organization  open 24 hours, seven days a week. The infant was always fussy at home, and ...

Small hospitals in Washington state are facing a difficult economic future. Their finances will likely become worse because ...