After 105 days of meeting in Olympia, lawmakers have gone home after passing a $77.9 billion operating budget, caps on rent ...

It’s probably not the budget that we thought we were going to be writing a year ago,” said state Sen. June Robinson, an Everett Democrat.

Washington State lawmakers concluded the 2025 legislative session with a focus on addressing a $16 billion budget shortfall.

Tension rose in Olympia on Wednesday as lawmakers addressed school funding and property taxes in the final days of the ...