OLYMPIA, Wash. — Tuesday is the deadline for Gov. Bob Ferguson to sign Washington state’s nearly $78 billion, two-year budget passed by the Legislature last month. Ferguson said he would ...

In the United States, Washington ranks at the top of the list of cherry production per state, with a volume of 240,000 tons in 2023, per World Population Review.Following that are California at ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Washington Treasurer Mike Pellicciotti has concerns about tapping into the state’s emergency savings account to help make up for a budget deficit. “I view that to be a ...

Rainy Day Funds With an aggregate $155.5 billion in savings at the end of fiscal 2024, states could run government operations on rainy day funds alone for a median of 49.1 days, equal to 13.5 ...

Washington Governor Bob Ferguson address the media following a hearing about U.S. President Donald Trump’s travel ban at the U.S. District Court in Seattle, Washington, on March 15, 2017.

Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin hoped to bolster Virginia’s rainy-day fund by $300 million in light of economic uncertainty ... Musk began cutting jobs and programs in Washington, state ...