Gov. Ferguson, the father of high school-age twins, first addressed the Associated Student Body (ASB) Board representatives ...

Last year, visits to food banks rose 26% in Washington, reaching 13.4 million visits, a huge increase from the 2014-2022 ...

Wages are also driving the gap between supply and demand. Early learning and child care wages remain incredibly low, with ...

Washington lawmakers move ahead on legislation that aims to protect kids from the addictive impacts of social media apps that are popular with teens.

The health of your children, of your neighbor’s children, of all children is not a partisan issue. The health of our country’s children predicts our future. Dr. Amrita Stark is a pediatrician at the ...

Staring down a $12 billion shortfall to pay for state programs would be daunting for anyone, and Gov. Bob Ferguson can be commended for proposing cuts with scalpel in hand, rather than a chain saw.

Senate Bill 5708 prevents social media companies from generating addictive feeds to minors based on data collected about the ...

Even if those elected officials wanted to hold off on the salary increases, that’s not an option available to them. Under state law, neither the governor, the Legislature nor the commission itself, ...

Gov. Bob Ferguson proposed state employees take one furlough day a month for two years to address the budget shortfall.

Bob Ferguson unveiled a plan Thursday to save the ... what options we have to help families get the benefit of their kids getting lunches and breakfasts,” Ferguson said.

Bob Ferguson wants state workers to take one unpaid ... child care and preschool that had been set to take place this year. Kids who miss out on such help at an early age won’t recover ...