By Laura L. Myers SEATTLE, April 22 (Reuters) - Washington state's governor signed into law on Monday the final piece of a six-year ef...

(Adds bar owner comments, governor reaction, details) By Eric M. Johnson SEATTLE, April 3 (Reuters) - Washington state w...

Terry Smith of West Richland, Wash., learned this week that he'll be losing his job in a few days thanks to federal budget cuts. "It stinks," Smith...

SEATTLE — So far, no one is suggesting checkpoints or fences to keep Washington state's legal pot within its borders. But Gov. Jay Inslee insis...

Jay Inslee (D) was elected the Governor of Washington, the AP reports. Inslee's opponent, Republican Rob McKenna, conceded on Friday. Inslee wa...

First, Utah Republicans sang "Call Me Maybe." Now the Republican nominee for Washington governor, Rob McKenna, is getting in on a pop culture craze. ...

Gubernatorial candidate and Bellevue resident Rob McKenna issued a statement that one of his staffers apologized after The Stranger's blog "The Slog" ...

Given the extensive special election process, districts left behind when a Member of Congress calls it quits are inevitably without representation for several months.

But, the truth need be told: The law was hatched in the Heritage Foundation, a Republican think-tank, and first enacted by Mitt Romney, a Republican Governor. How do Democrats show more bipartisanship than by enacting the other side's law?

Republican gubernatorial candidate Rob McKenna lashed out at a constituent on Tuesday, telling the young woman to "go get a job" in response to a ques...

Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) will announce on Saturday that he is resigning from Congress to devote time to his run for governor, a Democratic sou...

As state legislatures across the country debate and pass measures designed to roll back women's abortion rights, lawmakers in Washington state have in...

Our focus has to be on preserving and strengthening our society's safety net. I won't accept any "reform" that, as Obama has put it, fundamentally alters the way we view our commitment to our seniors, to our country, and to each other.

What would happen if instead of platitudes about working together to solve climate change, most Democrats stated that the other side is simply not interested in scientific realities and prefers to inhabit a fantasy world?

Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) accused Republicans on Tuesday of having an "allergy to science and scientists" during a House hearing on a Republican-led p...

This is our best chance to get a better deal for the middle class, the economy, and clean energy since President Obama made this "compromise" with the Republicans -- and we need to jump on it right now.

Negotiation on tough issues is a requirement of being a leader and a statesman, but we can no longer call it a negotiation if we're the only ones giving anything up.

Right now, in this economy, we can't afford to put politics before facts. And the facts are clear: middle-class tax cuts will help our economy -- and strengthening our economy will pay off for everyone in the long run.

Google and Verizon are businesses trying to make a buck -- I guess that's their job. But now it's time for members of Congress to stand with me and tell the FCC to do its job.

Words are cheap - clean up is expensive. So if Republican Minority Leader John Boehner really believes, as he said last week, that BP should pay for the Gulf oil spill recover, he needs to back up his words with action now.