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Despite a 2019 state Supreme Court ruling, legislators are shielding documents by claiming a loophole of 'legislative privilege.'

As the 2023 legislative session gets underway, Inslee is pushing an ambitious housing package and a prohibition on semiautomatic rifles.

The legislative session kicks off today in Olympia, and state lawmakers have a full agenda: gun regulations, education, big budget questions and more.

State residents say the cost of living and housing are big issues as lawmakers draft a new budget, according to a new Crosscut/Elway poll.

Two years after the WA Supreme Court struck down the state's felony possession law in the Blake decision, the Legislature is reconsidering drug laws.

Proposed policies include planting trees and steering people away from gas-powered cars — but nothing as ambitious as years past.

The high cost of power likely doomed talks to bring back the plant, which would rekindle 700 jobs.

Decades, and millions of dollars, could be saved with a new approach involving cement instead of glass.

Ahead of the 2023 legislative session, politics reporter Joseph O'Sullivan offers a crash course on state firearms restrictions.

Gov. Inslee said he'd find answers on the documents, which were shelved by a senior adviser he appointed last year to lead the prison ombuds agency.