Gov. Jay Inslee

OLYMPIA (AP) — The governor of Washington has put a statement on Facebook saying any act of hate in the state is intolerable. On Facebook Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee referenced an incident in Spokane Monday in which a racial epithet was spray-painted on the Martin Luther King Jr...

AIRWAY HEIGHTS (AP) — Ground has been broken in the Spokane suburb of Airway Heights for a controversial new off-reservation casino resort for the Spokane Tribe of Indians. Ground was broken Wednesday for the first phase of the project, which is a $40 million casino...

OLYMPIA (AP) — The latest polling in Washington state shows incumbent Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee capturing more than 50 percent of voter support, and Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton with a 17-point lead over Republican Donald Trump...

SEATTLE (AP) — The Obama administration is taking steps to restore and protect Puget Sound, one of the nation's largest estuaries. Christy Goldfuss, managing director of the White House Council on Environmental Quality, on Tuesday announced a new federal task force dedicated to identifying restoration priorities for Puget Sound...

SEATTLE (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the death penalty appeal of Clark Elmore, who was convicted in 1995 of raping and killing his girlfriend's 14-year-old daughter in Whatcom County. But the decision Monday drew a dissent from Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg...

OLYMPIA (AP) — Washington voters have a long history of sending a Democrat to the governor's office. This year, they'll decide whether to continue that trend — unbroken since 1984 — when they cast their vote between Democratic incumbent Gov...

SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee is set to announce an executive order to fight the rising abuse of opioids in Washington state. Inslee is scheduled to make the announcement Friday morning at the University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle...

SEATTLE (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee and his Republican opponent Bill Bryant sparred over education, taxes and government oversight in their second debate. At Seattle University Monday night Bryant repeatedly rapped the incumbent Democrat, saying he had mismanaged state departments, especially the state's mental health system...

SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state has adopted a new rule to limit greenhouse gas emissions from large polluters. State environmental regulators on Thursday morning finalized a rule that requires large industrial emitters to gradually reduce carbon emissions over time...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Republican gubernatorial candidate Bill Bryant says that if elected, he'll seek a moratorium on all new business regulations until completion of a review process justifying existing ones. In a speech Tuesday at a policy summit of the Association of Washington Business in Cle Elum, Bryant said that he would require agencies to define objectives and success of current regulatio