Gov. Tim Walz and leaders of the Minnesota Legislature have announced a hard-fought budget deal. They used the occasion ...

Free fallin’; The caves of Rome; Louisiana Senate race gets hot for Cassidy; Omaha sends a warning sign to GOP; Bessent can’t ...

D.C. officials say if Congress does not pass legislation restoring the city’s 2025 budget, they will be forced to cut $400 ...

A surprise holdout by ultraconservative members of the House Budget Committee Thursday forced Speaker Mike Johnson to ...

On the last day of the 2025 legislative session — and following months of intense debate — Washington state lawmakers passed ...

The Washington Township school board rejected a motion to bring back suspended schools chief Eric Hibbs. It also rejected a ...

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.

During a visit to the Lewiston Tribune on Thursday, Sen. Schoesler said he’d give the overall session a “D” grade. On the positive side, he said, lawmakers from both sides of the aisle worked well ...

Members of the tri-state area’s congressional delegation have been busy with work aimed at building the next federal budget, ...

President Donald Trump’s proposed spending cuts to Medicaid could cost Washington state an estimated $700 million annually.

The final state budget approved by the legislature left many lawmakers disappointed, and eager to start to work on ways to ...

The central library in Tumwater is facing "near elimination" due to a state budget shortfall that has put library services in ...