Washington SB 6110 takes effect June 11, 2026, tightening the definition of e-bikes and ordering a state framework for ...

OLYMPIA — The curtain fell Thursday night on the Washington Legislature’s 60-day session. A lot happened before it did. Passage of Democrats’ income tax on millionaire earners was the big storyline.

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington lawmakers adjourned on time without a special session, wrapping up a legislative session in which Democrats advanced major budget and transportation plans but left several ...

Legislators from the state’s 39th District were the primary sponsors of nine bills that passed in this year’s state legislative session, which ended Thursday. Those bills have been delivered to Gov.

On a rainy April morning, Ed Orcutt was tramping through the woods, looking for trees to measure. Orcutt is a Republican state representative, serving Centralia and Chehalis. But when the Legislature ...

Critics cast proposals to redraw state boundaries as pipe dreams, but proponents say that new borders would lead to better representation.