The new maps create a Latino-voter-majority district in the Yakima Valley that aligns with federal voting rights laws. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Lasnik sided with Latino voters who sued the ...

The way the state pays for long-term care and a host of other services no longer works. Year after year, the state has made wholesale cuts in budgets because leaders have created a tax structure that ...

State Democrats, in going after the state Auditor's budget, were really trying to stick it to Tim Eyman, the initiative king. The over-reach backfired. It's hard to avoid the obvious: the real target ...

Senate Democrats and supporters made a symbolic push Thursday to get a state voting rights act to the Washington Senate floor. The legislation appears doomed for 2015. Technically, though, two similar ...

The push for more oil trains sparks debate - and fears - about the safest way to move crude. The Pacific Northwest Energy Boom rolled into Vancouver, Wash., in a big way Tuesday, sparking more debate ...

America's last press council operates in Seattle. But even the Washington News Council is gasping for money. You can forgive John Hamer for feeling as if he’s the last of his kind. In a real sense, he ...

Jim Hanford is an architect who lives in the University District. His work focuses on sustainability and the energy performance of buildings. He was part of the design team for Seattle’s Bullitt ...

The Coho sails between Port Angeles and Victoria, BC any time of year. Plus, it's easy on your wallet. With the winter solstice looming on Dec. 21, people in the Pacific Northwest often begin lusting ...

Democrats have largely been bystanders, or even part of the problem. Liberals' shift to "post-material" and lifestyle issues has marooned the working and middle classes. A new book, Winner-Take-All ...

A former legislator, who supported earlier income taxes, laments the way a combination of targeted new income taxes and political logjams would affect his family business. In the early 1970s I was in ...

An effort has been launched to get a Ballard-University District light-rail line on the ballot. And won't Mayor McGinn be back with something to keep his vision for streetcars moving forward?

Beyond the raw horror of Rep. Giffords' attempted assassination, it will shape thinking for years to come. The raw horror of Saturday's shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords has already become shorthand ...