Gov. Jay Inslee

SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee and Seattle Mayor Ed Murray were among the speakers at a large rally in downtown Seattle that drew more than a thousand people protesting President Donald Trump's action barring people from certain Muslim nations from the United States...

FERNDALE (AP) — A woman who lives outside Bellingham has been arrested in connection with a threat made against Washington Gov. Jay Inslee. The Bellingham Herald reports 42-year-old Deborah Lindor of Ferndale was booked into jail Thursday and could face felony charges of threatening to harm...

SEATTLE (AP) — A bipartisan legislative committee has sent a list of recommendations to the governor for improving Washington state's struggling mental health care system. The eight-member Select Committee on Quality in State Hospitals told Gov...

OLYMPIA (AP) Gov. Jay Inslee and Attorney General Bob Ferguson have announced proposed legislation to abolish the death penalty in Washington state. The effort was announced Monday at the Capitol. Inslee imposed a moratorium on capital punishment in 2014, but repeal bills introduced since that time have stalled in the Legislature...

OLYMPIA (AP) — In his inaugural address, Gov. Jay Inslee says that lawmakers must fulfill their top priority of fully paying for the state's basic education. Inslee told a joint session of the Legislature Tuesday that while several other issues are also important, such as the mental health system, homelessness and higher education, none is more important than education...

BELLINGHAM (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has granted a reprieve to a man who was sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. The Bellingham Herald reports Inslee formally granted the reprieve to Clark Elmore Thursday. In 2014, Inslee announced a moratorium on executions in Washington state...

BELLINGHAM (AP) — Clark Richard Elmore has an execution date in less than one month. But the odds of Washington state going through with it are slim. Gov. Jay Inslee pledged two years ago to halt executions while he's in office, and he was just re-elected...

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — Two of the state's prominent Democrats are asking its most powerful congressional Republican to help save Obamacare. Gov. Jay Inslee and Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler wrote a letter Thursday to Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers in an effort to save the Affordable Care Act...

OLYMPIA (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee wants to create a new cabinet-level department called the Department of Children, Youth and Families. Under a plan announced this week as part of his two-year budget proposal, the current Department of Early Learning would be merged with Child Protective Services, juvenile justice programs, foster care services and other child-welfare programs currently administered

OLYMPIA (AP) — While a bulk of Gov. Jay Inslee's budget proposal focuses on education funding, his two-year plan also seeks more money for mental health and a tuition freeze for universities and community and technical colleges. On the second day of his multi-day budget rollout Wednesday, Inslee called for spending an additional $300 million in the next two year budget on the state's mental health