OLYMPIA – Just 18 days after its initial unveiling, Senate lawmakers have passed a $15 billion transportation package that includes an 11.7-cent increase to the state gas tax over the next three years.
After 22 months of negotiations, four senators — two Republicans and two Democrats — have unveiled a $15 billion transportation package with an 11.7 cents-per-gallon gas tax increase at its revenue core.
OLYMPIA — Gov. Jay Inslee’s proposal for regulating greenhouse gas emissions has cleared its first of several hurdles in a 6-to-5 party-line vote Feb. 10 in the Democrat-controlled House Environment Committee.
OLYMPIA – As a 22-year-old vegetarian skiing and sailing instructor, Beverly Elmer isn’t the type of person you’d expect to have heart problems. “I was lying down in bed and turned to Weylin and said, ‘Baby, oh god,’ and clenched my chest,” she said.
OLYMPIA — At the core of Gov. Jay Inslee’s plea for stricter remedial climate legislation is an attempt to put a cap on Washington’s pollution.
OLYMPIA – Washington’s new ferries chief, Lynne Griffith, is plunging into reforms that aim to set the state’s troubled ferry system on the right course.
OLYMPIA — Lawmakers are considering legislation to allow university students between ages 18 and 21 to taste alcohol in the classroom.
Rep. Appleton reintroduces bill to remove the felony classification from drug possession charges.
OLYMPIA – Washington’s lawmakers have opened this year’s legislative session amid predictions of a long and contentious debate focused on budget and tax votes for the K-12 education system.
OLYMPIA — Two years after Washington voters ended pot prohibition lawmakers are wading through a thicket of proposed reforms that aim to stabilize an industry struggling to get off the ground.
