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The deal, awaiting Gov. Ferguson’s signature, includes $4.3B in new taxes on businesses, financial assets and technology, and boosts K-12 funding.

Lawmakers in Olympia finalized a spending plan with new taxes and fees, and passed contentious policies like rent caps and new gun laws.

On the session’s final day, a bill limiting increases at 7% plus inflation – not to exceed 10% – for most tenants is headed to the governor’s desk.

Local banks are already struggling to meet demand, and federal cuts could mean empty shelves for the 1 in 4 Washingtonians who visited one last year.

Bills to standardize recycling statewide, tweak the state’s cap-and-invest program and allow fusion energy development all made it through this session.

Residents voted 59.7% to 40.3% Tuesday night to continue funding a database of three million prints used by local law enforcement and government agencies.

The Department of Homeland Security’s letters were not addressed to any specific names and started with “It is time for you to leave the United States.”

Washington fruit growers were hit hard by Trump’s first-term tariffs, and experts and legislators fear further erosion of trust with trading partners.

Raven Borsey, of Children of the Setting Sun helps publish Reefnetters of the Salish Sea, the final thesis of world-renowned anthropologist Wayne Suttles.

Debates over rent caps, parental rights, taxes and — perhaps the most contentious — finalizing the budget, all must be resolved before April 27.