Gov. Jay Inslee

OLYMPIA  (AP) — Washington lawmakers have adjourned their first special session but were immediately called back into overtime by Gov. Jay Inslee. The second special session started Tuesday, immediately after adjournment of the first one...

SEATTLE (AP) — Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Washington Gov. Jay Inslee met to discuss their close ties on topics ranging from trade to climate. The two briefly met with local media Thursday before a private meeting at the Renaissance Seattle Hotel...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a measure that bans holding hand-held devices while driving. The measure, signed by Inslee in Tacoma Tuesday, prohibits holding an electronic device — including phones, tablets and other electronic devices — while driving, including while in traffic or waiting for a traffic light to change...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The governor of Washington has signed a measure that seeks to make the state one of more than two dozen states currently in compliance with federal identification requirements. The signature Tuesday of Gov. Jay Inslee ends years of legislative struggle in Washington state over the best way to adhere to a 2005 federal law known as the REAL ID Act...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that will allow government agencies to charge fees for electronic copies of records. While public agencies can already charge a default rate of up to 15 cents per page for photocopying documents in response to public records requests, current state law doesn't include comparable language for charging fees for documents that are scanned and se

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that would let women get a 12-month refill of their birth control prescriptions instead of a month at the time. Inslee signed the measure Tuesday. The bill, sponsored by Democratic Rep...

OLYMPIA (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee has signed a bill that seeks to better protect vulnerable adults against financial exploitation and neglect. The measure, signed Wednesday, creates a new crime of theft involving a vulnerable adult — any person 18 years or older who is clearly mentally or physically unable to care for himself or herself or suffers from a cognitive impairment...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is leaving next week for a nearly weeklong trade mission to Mexico. Inslee will be among a delegation of 40 people, including representatives from the state departments of Commerce and Agriculture, the Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce, the Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle, and local business leaders and other government represen

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The state will set up a pilot program to license outdoor preschool and child care programs under a bill signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee. Inslee signed the measure Thursday. Senate Bill 5357 passed with strong support in both chambers...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Gov. Jay Inslee slammed Congress' vote to repeal and replace the national health care plan enacted under former President Barack Obama. Talking with reporters Thursday, Inslee said that if the House bill were to become law, "it will kick people off of their health insurance, Democrats and Republicans alike...